ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,066, issued on March 11, was assigned to EIZO Corp. (Hakusan, Japan).

"Method for learning threshold value" was invented by Yu Kato (Hakusan, Japan), Masafumi Higashi (Hakusan, Japan), Reo Aoki (Hakusan, Japan) and Mamoru Ogaki (Hakusan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention has been made in view of the foregoing, and an object thereof is to provide a method for learning a threshold that can provide a more objective threshold applied to pixels in the mammography image.The present invention provides a method for learning a threshold value applied to pixels in a mammography image comprising: an acquiring step; and...