ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,176, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image diagnostic apparatus, medical image diagnostic system, and information processing method of medical image diagnosis" was invented by Kazuki Gatayama (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to set, in a case where a plurality of scan processes corresponding to respective and independent imaging techniques are sequentially performed, reference time that acts as a reference for a start timing of...