US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 23 for "Swallowing evaluation system and swallowing evaluation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,569, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Swallowing evaluation system and swallowing evaluation method" was invented by Mikihiko Karube (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A swallowing evaluation system (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2), an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image in a pharynx of a subject by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound beam using the ultrasound probe (2), a sound acquisition unit that acquires a swallowing sound of the subject, and an evaluation unit (19) that evaluates swallowing of the subject using machine learning with a combination of the ultrasound im...