ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,592, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Incision simulation device, incision simulation method, and program" was invented by Futoshi Sakuragi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An incision simulation device includes a processor, in which the processor acquires an incision line for a three-dimensional organ image showing an organ which is an incision simulation target, and specifies an incision region from the three-dimensional organ image based on an incision process position between the incision line and a maximum incision region, first distance data with the incision line as a reference, and second dista...