ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,834, issued on July 7, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image acquisition apparatus, mammography apparatus, and control program" was invented by Takashi Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image acquisition apparatus including: a biopsy apparatus; an imaging table that is used to capture an image of a living body disposed on an imaging surface with an imaging apparatus; a projector that projects the image; and at least one processor, wherein the processor performs control of projecting relevant information associated with each execution stage of a biopsy that is performed on the living body...