US Patent Issued to Hitachi Power Solutions on Jan. 20 for "Array-type scanning acoustic tomograph and ultrasonic image display method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,790, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hitachi Power Solutions Co. Ltd. (Hitachi, Japan).

"Array-type scanning acoustic tomograph and ultrasonic image display method" was invented by Takaaki Mayuzumi (Ibaraki, Japan), Kaoru Kitami (Ibaraki, Japan) and Hiroyuki Gunji (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The array-type scanning acoustic tomograph includes a selection unit to select the elements constituting a vibrator group that connects vibrator drive signals and reception signals. The vibrator group is divided into a first group that emits ultrasonic beams to a former half of an ultrasonic beam irradiation region and a sec...