US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM SONOSITE on Sept. 8 for "Method and apparatus for performing spectral doppler imaging" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,859, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM SONOSITE INC. (Bothell, Wash.).

"Method and apparatus for performing spectral doppler imaging" was invented by Zoran Banjanin (Bellevue, Wash.) and Andrew Lundberg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging system performs spectral Doppler processing in a manner that considers a physiological cycle of a subject. In one embodiment, gaps in a spectral Doppler signal are filled taking by a processor that analyzes changes in the spectral Doppler signal caused by a physiological cycle. Spectral Doppler data are scaled to fit with the data occurring before and after a gap....