US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 29 for "Fluid analysis apparatus, fluid analysis method, and fluid analysis program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,388, issued on July 29, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fluid analysis apparatus, fluid analysis method, and fluid analysis program" was invented by Hirotaka Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor analyzes an image obtained by imaging a subject including a tubular structure in which a fluid flows, thereby deriving fluid information regarding flow of the fluid at each of pixel positions in the tubular structure. The processor derives, within the tubular structure included in the image, a matching degree between the fluid information at a plurality of pixel-of-interest positions set at a first sampling interval ...