ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,673, issued on May 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus, data processing method, and computer program product" was invented by Manabu Teshigawara (Otawara, Japan) and Ryo Okuda (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain nuclear medicine data; to time-divide the nuclear medicine data into at least first nuclear medicine data and second nuclear medicine data; and to identify a biological accumulation region, on the basis ...