ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,700, issued on June 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound time-series data processing device and ultrasound time-series data processing program" was invented by Eiji Kasahara (Chiba, Japan), Katsunori Asafusa (Chiba, Japan) and Tomoaki Chono (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Doppler processing unit or a beam data processing unit generates target time-series data based on a received beam data sequence from a reception unit. An artifact prediction unit predicts the type of artifact to be caused by the target time-series data by inputting the target time-series data to a trained artifact prediction learner...