US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 3 for "Information processing apparatus, bronchoscope apparatus, information processing method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,018, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, bronchoscope apparatus, information processing method, and program" was invented by Takeharu Nakazato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor derives an inner diameter of a bronchus on the basis of volume data including a bronchial image showing the bronchus, and derives an arrival position of a bronchoscope that is inserted into the bronchus on the basis of the inner diameter and an outer diameter of the bronchoscope."

The patent was filed on April 21, 2023,...