ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,984, issued on May 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that continuously acquires an ultrasound image of a blood vessel using the ultrasound probe; a blood vessel detection unit that detects the blood vessel from the ultrasound image; a blood vessel information acquisition unit that acquires blood vessel information of the blood vesse...