ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,134, issued on April 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image processing device, method, and program" was invented by Sadato Akahori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor acquires a three-dimensional image of a subject, acquires a real endoscopic image in a lumen structure of the subject, which is picked up by an endoscope inserted into the lumen structure of the subject, derives a virtual viewpoint in the three-dimensional image of the endoscope using the real endoscopic image and the three-dimensional image, acquires a radiation image of the subject in which the endoscope is inserted into the lumen structure, p...