US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 22 for "Diagnostic assistance apparatus, ultrasound endoscope, diagnostic assistance method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,767, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Diagnostic assistance apparatus, ultrasound endoscope, diagnostic assistance method, and program" was invented by Toshihiro Usuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diagnostic assistance apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to acquire a first ultrasound image generated by an ultrasound module, and switch between a first operating mode and a second operating mode according to whether or not reference information is combined with the first ultrasound image, according to whether or not the first ultrasound image is an image obtained ...