ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,651, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Medical information processing apparatus generating human body data based on medical image data" was invented by Naoki Sasaki (Otawara, Japan) and Hitoshi Yamagata (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes storage circuitry and processing circuitry. The storage circuitry is configured to store therein human body data structured with a plurality of voxels. The processing circuitry is configured to generate human body data by causing each of the voxels in the human bo...