US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Dec. 16 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,047, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Tomoki Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukiya Miyachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a display that displays a B-mode image in which at least a blood vessel region is imaged; a processor configured to accept designation of a position of the blood vessel region on the B-mode image; detect a vascular wall by performing image analysis on the B-mode image on the basis of the designated position of the blood vessel re...