US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 15 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,911, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Yuko Takada (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Masaki Watanabe (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires first ultrasonic image data of a first mode, estimates a position of an examination target included in the first ultrasonic image data by applying a trained model to the first ultrasonic image data and output an estimation result, calculates a coordinate of a region of interest corresponding to a s...