US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG MEDISON on Sept. 29 for "Ultrasound system and signal processing unit configured for time gain and Laterial gain compensation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,981, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON Co. LTD. (Gangwon-Do, South Korea).

"Ultrasound system and signal processing unit configured for time gain and Laterial gain compensation" was invented by Doo Sik Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Mi Jeoung Ahn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ultrasound system, which comprises: a signal acquiring unit to transmit an ultrasound signal to an object and acquire an echo signal reflected from the object; a signal processing unit to control TGC (Time Gain Compensation) and LGC (Lateral Gain Compensation) of the echo signal; a TGC/LGC s...