US Patent Issued to TERUMO on June 17 for "Method for generating model by recognizing cross-section regions in units of pixels" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,718, issued on June 17, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method for generating model by recognizing cross-section regions in units of pixels" was invented by Yuki Sakaguchi (Isehara, Japan), Yusuke Seki (Tokyo) and Akira Iguchi (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer is caused to perform processing of: acquiring a plurality of medical images generated based on signals detected by a catheter inserted into a lumen organ while the catheter is moving a sensor along a longitudinal direction of the lumen organ, the lumen organ including a main trunk, a side branch branched from the main trunk, and a bifurcated portio...