US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on May 13 for "Luminal structure calculation apparatus, creation method for luminal structure information, and non-transitory recording medium recording luminal structure information creation program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,922, issued on May 13, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Luminal structure calculation apparatus, creation method for luminal structure information, and non-transitory recording medium recording luminal structure information creation program" was invented by Jun Hane (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luminal structure calculation apparatus includes at least one processor including hardware. The processor acquires picked-up images at a plurality of points in time including a same site of an object acquired by an image pickup unit provided in an insertion section inserted into a lumen serving as the object and three-dimensi...