US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Nov. 11 for "Medical data processing device performing processing using a complex-number neural network" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,269, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Medical data processing device performing processing using a complex-number neural network" was invented by Hideaki Kutsuna (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hidenori Takeshima (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical data processing device according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit applies a linear calculation of a complex number coefficient and a non-linear activation not dependent on an argument of complex numbers, to medical data having a complex value."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2022, under A...