ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,989, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical information processing apparatus capable of discriminating captured image and processed image, medial information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Yuma Hosoya (Saitama, Japan) and Keisuke Arima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information processing apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit an original image, which is a medical image captured by an imaging apparatus and which serves as a processing object in an external system, to the external system, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a proce...