ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,103, issued on July 1, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Learning apparatus, learning system, learning method of machine learning model, and storage medium" was invented by Eri Suzui (Hino, Japan), Hitoshi Futamura (Hachioji, Japan), Shinsuke Katsuhara (Kodaira, Japan), Hirotake Minami (Fuchu, Japan) and Nodoka Iida (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A learning apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor obtains a first medical image. The hardware processor generates a second medical image in which a feature according to feature information related to a portion other than a recognition target o...