US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on Dec. 2 for "Method and system for endoscopic diagnosis support" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,896, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Method and system for endoscopic diagnosis support" was invented by Hirokazu Nosato (Tsukuba, Japan), Yuta Kochi (Tsukuba, Japan), Hidenori Sakanashi (Tsukuba, Japan), Masahiro Murakawa (Tsukuba, Japan) and Atsushi Ikeda (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An endoscopic diagnosis support method whereby an examined area and an unexamined area can be clearly discriminated. After a preparatory step of an observation canvas is performed in advance, a frame marking step, a k...