ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,113, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program" was invented by Akira Oosawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program make it possible to accurately recognize property changes between medical images having different imaging times. A property classification unit classifies each pixel included in a target region of each of a first medical image and a second medical image of which an imaging time is later than an imaging time of the first medical image for...