ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,701, issued on June 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image processing device, operation method of medical image processing device, and recording medium for estimating a state of an observation imaged by an endoscope" was invented by Katsuyuki Higa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a medical image processing device, an operation method of the medical image processing device, a medical image processing program, and a recording medium that are capable of accurately estimating a state of the observation region of an observation image captured by an endoscope.In the medical image processing d...