ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,323, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Yusuke Kano (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Sho Sasaki (Utsunomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry which updates a model for calculating an effect evaluation value for a medical decision. The processing circuitry updates a parameter of the model while retaining the structure of the model so that the structure of the model is updated less frequently than the...