ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,702, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical information processing system and medical information processing method" was invented by Takahiko Nishioka (Otawara, Japan) and Hideaki Ishii (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information processing system according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a blood-vessel blood flow index in a coronary artery and a myocardial blood flow index in a myocardial region to which the coronary artery supplies blood. The processing circuitry calculates an index indicating a capab...