ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,850, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, and medical information processing 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 medical information processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs, on each of a plurality of resolution data items, one or more times of first noise reduction processing of reducing noise and one or more times of first DC processing of enhancing a data consistency, and gene...