US Patent Issued to TOPCON, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY on Jan. 13 for "Medical system and medical information processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,012, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Asahikawa, Japan).

"Medical system and medical information processing apparatus" was invented by Kana Minamide (Tokyo), Masahiro Akiba (Wako, Japan), Jun Sakai (Kuki, Japan) and Akitoshi Yoshida (Asahikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system of an aspect example includes a data acquiring unit and a data processor. The data acquiring unit is configured to acquire data from an eye fundus of a patient using at least one optical method. The data processor is configured to process the data acqui...