ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,416, issued on April 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing apparatus, endoscope system, medical image processing method, and program" was invented by Misaki Meguro (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medical image processing apparatus, an endoscope system, a medical image processing method, and a program that may support search using information on an unobserved region of interest. The medical image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit (40) that acquires an observation image (38); a display signal transmission unit (44) that transmits, to a display apparatus...