US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on May 27 for "Subject information acquisition device, method for operating subject information acquisition device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,777, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Subject information acquisition device, method for operating subject information acquisition device, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Takahiro Kawamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body thickness distribution calculation unit calculates a body thickness distribution of the subject. A soft region specification unit specifies a soft region indicating a region of a soft part from a radiographic image. A subject information acquisition unit calculates the proportion of muscle and the proportion of fat in the soft region for ea...