US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 11 for "Joint image unfolding apparatus, joint image unfolding method, and joint image unfolding program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,868, issued on March 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Joint image unfolding apparatus, joint image unfolding method, and joint image unfolding program" was invented by Ichiro Sekiya (Tokyo), Nobutake Ozeki (Tokyo), Akinobu Hyodo (Tokyo), Hayato Aoki (Tokyo), Kenji Suzuki (Tokyo) and Jun Masumoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint image unfolding apparatus, a joint image unfolding method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a joint image unfolding program are provided to make it possible to check information regarding the entire cartilage in a joint with high accuracy. An image obtai...