US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 6 for "Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,694, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Minori Izumi (Shioyagunshioyamachi, Japan), Taku Muramatsu (Otawara, Japan), Tomoko Aizawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Katsuyuki Takamatsu (Yaita, Japan), Takashi Koyakumaru (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Mitsuo Akiyama (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a display; a probe; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an appearance image of an object that is scheduled to undergo dialysis, generates a 3D image from an echo signal acquired by the probe...