US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 3 for "Ultrasound phantom and method of producing ultrasound phantom" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,562, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ultrasound phantom including a hydrogel, wherein the hydrogel contains water, a first polysaccharide containing a glucose residue in a main chain thereof, and a mannose residue and a glucuronic acid residue in a side chain thereof, and a second polysaccharide containing a mannose residue in a main chain thereof and a galactose residue in a side chain thereof, and wherein the hyd...