ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,550, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Nuclear medicine diagnostic device, data processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium with detection timing correction" was invented by Go Kawata (Moriya, Japan) and Manabu Teshigawara (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear medicine diagnostic device according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains first photon-number information detected by a first detector; calculates, based on the first photon-number information, a first light emission probability model corresponding to ...