ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,955, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image processing system and recording medium" was invented by Ryoichi Watanabe (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus, including: a hardware processor that obtains a side image of a lung field radiographed from a side of a subject, identifies a first side lung field region and a second side lung field region, from the side image, causes a display to display at least one of the identified first side lung field region and second side lung field region, and calculates at least one of...