ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,118, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium for processing image features of anatomical parts from examination images of a subject" was invented by Ryo Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toru Tanaka (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprising: an extraction unit configured to extract a predetermined region of an anatomical part from an examination image of a subject; a first feature amount acquisition unit configured to acquire a first feature amount of the predetermined region ...