ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,742, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging support apparatus, operation method of imaging support apparatus, and operation program of imaging support apparatus, for reducing extra irradiation exposure of a subject" was invented by Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Tokyo), Koji Taninai (Tokyo), Masataka Sugahara (Tokyo), Yuji Kai (Tokyo) and Yuji Jibiki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CPU of a console includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a specifying unit, and an extraction unit. The first acquisition unit acquires designation information of a measurement target part of a bone density o...