ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,219, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Diagnosis and treatment support system" was invented by Yudai Yamazaki (Nasushiobara, Japan), Longxun Piao (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Kosuke Arita (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnosis and treatment support system according to an embodiment has a storage apparatus and processing circuitry. The storage apparatus stores a trained model that infers information related to a state of a patient from an examination value for a predetermined examination item. Based on correlations between examination values for plural examination items,...