US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 24 for "Endoscope system, method for activating endoscope system, and image processing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,797, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Endoscope system, method for activating endoscope system, and image processing apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actual measurement value calculation unit calculates a first actual measurement value of oxygen saturation of a tissue to be observed. A reference value calculation unit calculates a first reference value of the oxygen saturation of the tissue to be observed. A relative value calculation unit calculates a relative value of the first actual measurement value with reference to the first reference value. ...