ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,188, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Clinical support system and clinical support apparatus" was invented by Atsuko Sugiyama (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Kei Mori (Shioya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clinical support system according to an embodiment includes a clinical support apparatus, which is provided with processing circuitry, and a display device. The processing circuitry configured to acquire patient information related to a patient, interview information showing a response detail of the patient with respect to an interview, and conversation information recording a con...