ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,748, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Estimation apparatus, estimation system, and computer-readable non-transitory medium storing estimation program" was invented by Kenichi Watanabe (Tokyo), Masayuki Kyomoto (Ritto, Japan), Shintaro Honda (Tokyo), Toru Moro (Tokyo) and Sakae Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An estimation apparatus includes an input unit and an approximator. Input information including an image in which a bone appears is input into the input unit. The approximator is configured to determine an estimation result related to bone density o...