ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,334, issued on June 30, was assigned to NIHON KOHDEN Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and ultrasound system" was invented by Hiraku Tabata (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus configured to process information acquired from a probe including a base having flexibility to bend along a surface of subject's body and a plurality of ultrasound transducers arranged on the base at predetermined intervals. The information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire transmission information, which relates to ultrasound emitted from the ultrasound transducers ...