US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 4 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,298, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, information processing system, and program" was invented by Satoru Fukushima (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiro Hirata (Tokyo) and Ritsuya Tomita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus disclosed in the present specification includes: estimation means for estimating a subject's risk of developing a disease using a learned model that has learned a relationship between a feature obtained from a fundus image and a risk of developing the disease, which is evaluated from the feat...