ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,710, issued on April 15, was assigned to HOYA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Program, information processing method, and information processing device" was invented by Akihiko Nishide (Tokyo) and Junko Sugai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A program causes a computer to perform processing of: acquiring an endoscopic image obtained by capturing a subject using an endoscope; extracting region-of-interest information from the acquired endoscopic image; acquiring a three-dimensional medical image obtained by capturing an inside of a body of the subject using at least one of X-ray CT, X-ray cone beam CT, MRI-CT, and an ultrasonic diagnost...