ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,368, issued on March 3, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus, acquisition period extending method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium" was invented by Masaki Miyahara (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nuclear medicine diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured: to acquire nuclear medicine data by scanning an examined subject; to specify timing of a body movement of the examined subject during the acquisition of the nuclear medicine data; and to extend an acquisition period of...