ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 -- United States Patent no. 11,969,295, issued on April 30, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).
"Techniques to prevent an occurrence of an artifact due to residual echoes in an ultrasound diagnostic device" was invented by Tetsuya Taniguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasound diagnostic device includes a transmitter that causes an ultrasound probe including a plurality of transducers aligned in an azimuth direction to perform a plurality of set transmissions including a plurality of types of ultrasound transmissions for a transmission line which is common, while changing a position of the transmission line in the azimuth direction, a receiver th...