ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,438, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical information management system having a function for assignment of editing authority on setting information in a modality, and terminal device and storage medium used therein" was invented by Yoshiteru Watanabe (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shinya Ozawa (Saitama, Japan) and Takeshi Ishimoto (Arakawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical information management device of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire patient authentication data for identifying a patient from a terminal device ...