ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,327, issued on June 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image acquisition guidance device, medical image acquisition guidance system, and program" was invented by Yukiya Miyachi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console as a medical image acquisition guidance device includes a projection processing unit configured to, in a case in which a radiation image and an ultrasound image of a breast in a state of being compressed by a compression member are captured, perform processing of projecting a guide image for guiding at least one of a scanning region or a scanning direction of an ultrasound probe used f...