ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,348, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tsuyoshi Matsumoto (Tokyo), Tomoki Inoue (Tokyo), Tomohiko Tanaka (Tokyo) and Nobuhiko Fujii (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing unit included in an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus executes a process of generating a B-mode image based on transmission of an ultrasonic wave to a subject and reception of the ultrasonic wave reflected by the subject, a process of generating a Doppler waveform image based on transmission of an ultrasonic wave to the subject and reception of the ultrasonic wav...