US Patent Issued to MEDICAL CORPORATION KATAYAMA ORTHOPEDIC RHEUMATOLOGY CLINIC on Dec. 9 for "Estimation device, estimation method, program, and generation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,961, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MEDICAL CORPORATION KATAYAMA ORTHOPEDIC RHEUMATOLOGY CLINIC (Hokkaido, Japan).

"Estimation device, estimation method, program, and generation method" was invented by Kou Katayama (Hokkaido, Japan), Kensaku Mori (Aichi, Japan), Masahiro Oda (Aichi, Japan) and Dongping Pan (Aichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A purpose of the present invention is to make it possible, when diagnosing bone marrow edema, to estimate whether bone marrow edema is present in a body part of a subject without using MRI testing using a high-cost MRI device. The present invention is an estimation device that includes...