ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,974, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Medical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medicine collation device, medicine collation system, medicine management method, and program" was invented by Masanobu Takashima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a medicine collation device, a medicine collation system, a medicine management method, and a program, capable of collecting medicine images that are candidates for master images. The medicine collation device includes: a medicine image acquiring unit configured to acquire a medicine image generated by imaging a medicine to be collated; a first master image storing unit c...