ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,660, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Learning system for creating trained model that predicts complete recovery period of affected part, control method for same, and storage medium" was invented by Keita Nagai (Tokyo), Kazuomi Toguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Honami Watanabe (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning system which is capable of easily collecting data of affected parts having completely recovered, as training data. When it is determined that an affected part has completely recovered based on affected-part image data generated by shooting the affected part, image data accompanied with...