ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,668, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI HIGH-TECH Corp. (Tokyo).

"Function recommendation system and function recommendation method" was invented by Yuji Otomo (Tokyo) and Manabu Andou (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the present invention, a useful function suitable for the usages tatus of a medical device is recommended without burdening a user with advanced and complicated work for effectively using various functions installed int the medical device. This function recommendation system, which recommends functions that can be executed by a medical device 102 to a user, comprises an operation information recording un...