ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,501, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON Co. LTD. (Hongcheon-gun, South Korea).

"Ultrasound imaging apparatus for displaying a Kupffer phase based on contrast-enhanced images" was invented by Mo Se Kim (Hongcheon-Gun, South Korea), Jun Woo Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Yoon Chang Lee (Hongcheon-Gun, South Korea) and Jeong Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound imaging disclosure according to an embodiment of the present disclosure relates to an ultrasound imaging apparatus configured to irradiate ultrasonic waves to an object to which an ultrasonic contrast agent is administered, receive an ...