ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,632, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corp. (Lexington, Mass.).

"System and method for synchronized navigation and annotation of correlated, heterogeneous sets of medical images" was invented by Azuma Takahashi (Cary, N.C.), Myles O'Keefe (Cary, N.C.), Michael Wakim (Culver City, Calif.), Jasmine Mulligan (Seattle), Brigil Vincent (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Takashi Hirano (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The instant disclosure relates to a method for synchronized navigation and annotation of correlated, heterogeneous sets of medical images. The method including correlating, based on first ...