ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,056, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound system and method for controlling ultrasound system" was invented by Keiji Tsubota (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound system 1 includes: a display unit 34 that displays an acquired ultrasound image as a first image in an image display region; an operation unit 40 that includes a touch sensor disposed so as to be superimposed on the image display region and is used by a user to perform a touch input operation; a second image generation unit 37 that generates a second image indicating a partial image...