ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,163, issued on May 27, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Dynamic image analysis apparatus and storage medium" was invented by Noritsugu Matsutani (Musashino, Japan), Tatsuya Takagi (Mitaka, Japan) and Kenta Shimamura (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic image analysis apparatus includes a hardware processor; and an outputter. The hardware processor obtains a dynamic image of a chest portion obtained by dynamic imaging by radiation. The hardware processor performs a first generating process in which information regarding pleural adhesion is generated based on a motion amount in a region including at least ...