ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,549, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electric equipment that assists registration operation for associating photographed image data and patient information, method of controlling same, and storage medium" was invented by Satoshi Ishizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An examination assisting apparatus capable of preventing an error in a registration operation performed by an user for associating photographed image data of an affected area of a patient with patient information. A user acquires patient information by reading a patient identifier and holds the same in a storage medium, and generates and store...