ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,147, issued on April 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and program, configured for continuously capturing images for an image group, at a predetermined time interval or less" was invented by Yasuo Okuda (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus enables a user to easily select a target image from among a plurality of images captured by an image diagnostic apparatus. An identification unit identifies, as one image group, a plurality of images continuously captured at time intervals equal to or less than a predetermined time interval among a plurality of i...