ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,877, issued on July 22, was assigned to Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan) and National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (Chiba, Japan).

"Medical image processing device, storage medium, medical device, and treatment system" was invented by Ryusuke Hirai (Tokyo), Yukinobu Sakata (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Akiyuki Tanizawa (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Keiko Okaya (Tokyo) and Shinichiro Mori (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image processing device of an embodiment includes first and second image acquirers, a generator, and a calculator. The first image acquirer acquires a first...