US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 31 for "Fat mass derivation device, fat mass derivation method, and fat mass derivation program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,885, issued on March 31, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fat mass derivation device, fat mass derivation method, and fat mass derivation program" was invented by Tomoyuki Takahashi (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fat mass derivation device includes at least one processor, in which the processor derives a fat mass distribution of a subject from a first radiation image and a second radiation image acquired by imaging the subject with radiation having different energy distributions, and derives a visceral fat mass distribution of the subject based on a shape of the fat mass distribution in a cross section...