US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on April 15 for "Medical image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and method of medical image processing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,678, issued on April 15, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Medical image processing apparatus, X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and method of medical image processing" was invented by Kazuhiro Taniyama (Otawara, Japan), Hisato Takemoto (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yoshiyasu Hayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Tomoki Fujito (Nasushiobara, Japan), Hirona Oikawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yuya Suzuki (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Kenji Mizutani (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry acquiring an X-ray image about a subject, acquiring an ...