ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,249, issued on March 4, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Volume rendering apparatus and method" was invented by Magnus Fredrik Wahrenberg (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image display apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: receive a plurality of frames each comprising respective medical image data; specify an order of priority for the plurality of frames; select regions of medical image data from more than one of the frames of the plurality of frames based on the order of priority; and generate combined image data by combining the selected regions of me...