ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,048, issued on April 22, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo) and ROKKEN INC. (Sakai, Japan).

"Diagnosis support device, diagnosis support system, and diagnosis support method" was invented by Yasukazu Sakamoto (Hiratsuka, Japan), Itaru Okubo (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuhiko Shimizu (Fujinomiya, Japan), Hiroyuki Ishihara (Tokyo), Ryosuke Saga (Osaka, Japan), Thomas Henn (Sakai, Japan), Clement Jacquet (Sakai, Japan), Nuwan Herath (Sakai, Japan) and Iselin Erikssen (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnosis support device includes a control unit that correlates a plurality of pixels included in a two-dimensional image with two...