Ultrasonic Diagnostic Device with Blood Flow Processing
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USPTO published patent application US20260096809A1 for an ultrasonic diagnostic device with one or more processors configured to acquire measurement data including both tissue-derived and blood-flow-derived information, compute a deformation amount between a plurality of frames, and generate display image data by aligning and synthesizing feature points across those frames. The application was filed on December 10, 2025 under Application No. 19415098, naming Shoya Sasaki, Naoya Iizuka, Takeshi Sato, and Hiroki Takahashi as inventors.
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USPTO published patent application US20260096809A1 for an ultrasonic diagnostic device and medical information processing method. The invention describes processors and/or circuitry that acquire measurement data from ultrasonic signals reflected in a living body, extract blood-flow-derived information, compute a deformation amount between multiple frames, and synthesize feature points across those frames to generate display image data. CPC classifications span A61B (ultrasonic diagnostics), G06T (image processing), and G16H (health informatics). The application was filed December 10, 2025 under Application No. 19415098 and published April 9, 2026.
Manufacturers of ultrasound or medical imaging equipment may wish to review this filing to assess whether similar blood-flow processing techniques could affect freedom-to-operate or trigger licensing considerations. Inventors and patent practitioners in the health informatics or medical imaging space should monitor the prosecution history for claim scope once examination begins. No patent rights are conferred by this publication alone.
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ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM
Application US20260096809A1 Kind: A1 Apr 09, 2026
Inventors
SHOYA SASAKI, NAOYA IIZUKA, TAKESHI SATO, HIROKI TAKAHASHI
Abstract
The present disclosure includes an ultrasonic diagnostic device including one or more processors and/or circuitry configured to execute first acquisition processing of acquiring, based on an ultrasonic signal reflected in a living body, measurement data including tissue-derived information and blood-flow-derived information, execute second acquisition processing of acquiring, based on blood flow data obtained by extracting or emphasizing the blood-flow-derived information of the measurement data, a deformation amount between a plurality of frames, and execute generation processing of generating display image data by aligning feature points in the blood-flow-derived information between the frames based on the deformation amount and then synthesizing the aligned feature points for the plurality of frames.
CPC Classifications
A61B 8/5246 A61B 8/06 A61B 8/463 A61B 8/5207 A61B 8/5223 A61B 8/5269 G06T 5/50 G06T 5/70 G06T 7/0014 G06T 7/11 G06T 7/337 G06T 7/50 G06T 11/00 G16H 50/20 A61B 8/488 G06T 2207/10132 G06T 2207/20021 G06T 2207/20081 G06T 2207/20216 G06T 2207/30104
Filing Date
2025-12-10
Application No.
19415098
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