ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,190, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Medical image diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Hideaki Ishii (Nasushiobara, Japan), Satoshi Wakai (Nasushiobara, Japan), Kazumasa Arakita (Nasushiobara, Japan), Takuma Igarashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yasuko Fujisawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shigeo Kaminaga (Otawara, Japan), Kenji Hirohata (Tokyo) and Junichiro Ooga (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a medical image diagnostic apparatus includes a storage memory, processing circuitry, and a display. The storage memory stores data of a plurality of FFR distribution ...