ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,571, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical information processing apparatus and medical information processing method" was invented by Masashi Yoshida (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yasunori Ohshima (Yaita, Japan), Tomohiro Kawasaki (Otawara, Japan) and Takeshi Ezumi (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to record, when a layout of a display area is changed at a first step included in a clinical workflow, layout change information that indica...