US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 14 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that assists in puncturing a blood vessel of a subject" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,129, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that assists in puncturing a blood vessel of a subject" was invented by Tsuyoshi Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately puncture a blood vessel of a subject.An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a blood vessel using the ultrasound probe; a blood vessel detection unit that detects th...