ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,688, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Analysis apparatus and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus" was invented by Yu Igarashi (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Masaki Watanabe (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, the analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a plurality of medical images respectively corresponding to a plurality of consecutive frames, generates first position data and second position data indicating positions of a moving object in a subject for a first medical image corresponding to a first frame and a...