ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,536, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Reconstruction apparatus, method, and program" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a reconstruction apparatus obtains acquired raw data, and reconstruct a data set that represents a measured physical amount with a multidimensional space based on the acquired raw data. Herein, the apparatus performs reduction processing for generating noise-reduced partial data from partial data relating to a partial area of a data set at a current number of iterations, error compensation ...