US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Oct. 20 for "Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and fat fraction estimation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,860, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and fat fraction estimation method" was invented by Yu Zhao (Tokyo), Tomohide Nishiyama (Tokyo) and Mika Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-dimensional region of interest is set within a liver of a subject (S12). A first parameter group including a first attenuation coefficient is calculated based on first reception information obtained from the two-dimensional region of interest (S16). A second parameter group including a second attenuation coefficient is calculated based on second reception information obtained from the two...