ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,187, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Medical image processing apparatus" was invented by Yasuko Fujisawa (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Shintaro Funabasama (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing apparatus according to a first embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate information related to temperature by using a first image obtained by imaging one or more observation regions prior to treatment and at least one second image obtained by imaging the one or more observation regions during the treatment, gen...