ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,709, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Medical support system" was invented by Nao Wariishi (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Hiroki Saito (Oyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical support system includes a processing circuit configured to: acquire medical data on a specific patient over time; cause a display to display a display screen on which one or more measurement values in the medical data are displayed; detect an alert value that satisfies a determination condition from the one or more measurement values included in the medical data every time the medical data is acquired; and highlight a warning area ...