US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 29 for "Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method for tissue displacement caused by a shearwave generated by acoustic radiation force" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,988, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method for tissue displacement caused by a shearwave generated by acoustic radiation force" was invented by Masaki Watanabe (Shioya, Japan), Yuko Kanayama (Nasushiobara, Japan), Tetsuya Kawagishi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yoshimi Muto (Nasushiobara, Japan), Eiji Goto (Utsunomiya, Japan), Koichiro Kurita (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Shogo Fukuda (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, ...