ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,837, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Apparatus and method" was invented by Kousuke Namiki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain first Doppler waveform data related to a left ventricular blood inflow. The processing circuit is configured to detect positions of an E-wave and an A-wave in the first Doppler waveform data, by using the first Doppler waveform data and a trained model trained with training data that includes at least positions of an E-wave and an A-wav...