ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,345, issued on March 3, was assigned to ASAHI INTECC Co. LTD. (Seto, Japan).

"Medical apparatus, and image generation method for visualizing temporal trends of biomagnetic data on an organ model" was invented by Masatomo Ishikawa (Seto, Japan) and Takayuki Hori (Seto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides for the visualization of an organ's electrical activity. Circuitry acquires image information to generate an anatomical organ model and also acquires biomagnetic field information from the organ. An electrocardiogramrent image is generated from the biomagnetic field information. This current image expresses over-tim...