ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,513, issued on July 21, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasonic imaging method, and storage medium" was invented by Masanobu Kameda (Kokubunji, Japan) and Morio Nishigaki (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprising a hardware processor. The hardware processor sequentially performs ultrasonic imaging of a first patient in each of a plurality of routines by controlling an imager which generates ultrasonic image data by ultrasonic imaging of a subject of a patient based on information on a routine set including the plurality o...