ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,753, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasound image processing apparatus" was invented by Misaki Maruyama (Chiba, Japan), Masanori Hisatsu (Chiba, Japan) and Hiroshi Kuribara (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay processor includes a plurality of delay units and individually delays reception signals which are respectively output from a plurality of transducers. A signal combiner combines the delayed reception signals to generate a phase-aligned reception signal. An evaluation value computing unit finds a noise evaluation value for the phase-aligned reception signal based on the delayed r...