US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 8 for "Control method of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,849, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control method of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and non-transitory computer readable recording medium" was invented by Kimito Katsuyama (Ashigara-kami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle direction estimation unit estimates a needle direction L based on needle information generated by a needle information generation unit, and outputs the position information of the needle direction L. A search region setting unit sets the needle direction L in a tissue image based on the position information of the needle direction L, and sets a search region F that e...