US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 29 for "Medical imaging apparatus, medical imaging method, medical imaging program, and medical imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,977, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical imaging apparatus, medical imaging method, medical imaging program, and medical imaging system" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Atsushi Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Rika Tashiro (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeyasu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Sayaka Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging apparatus includes a processor that acquires a position of an ultrasound probe that emits an ultrasound beam toward a breast of an examinee, which is in a compressed state by way of a compression plate. The processor detects a dist...