ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,879, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Machine learning system, recognizer, learning method, and program" was invented by Masaaki Oosake (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiro Usuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a machine learning system, a learning method, and a program that can facilitate learning of a large number of combined medical images. A machine learning system (10) includes: an image database (14) that stores a plurality of medical images; a geometric-shape database (16) that stores geometric shapes to be superimposed on the medical images; a processor (22); and a lear...