US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 24 for "Ultrasound phantom and method for manufacturing ultrasound phantom" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,073, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound phantom and method for manufacturing ultrasound phantom" was invented by Kyohei Wada (Tokyo), Chiaki Nishiura (Tokyo) and Ryo Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound phantom comprising: water; agar; a thickening polysaccharide; and a water-retention auxiliary agent, wherein when a first phase transition point is defined as a temperature at which an aqueous dispersion liquid of the agar is solated by temperature raising and becomes a solated aqueous solution of the agar, and a second phase transition point is defined as a temperature at...