US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on May 5 for "Pulmonary embolism diagnosis support apparatus, pulmonary embolism diagnosis support method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,436, issued on May 5, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Pulmonary embolism diagnosis support apparatus, pulmonary embolism diagnosis support method, and storage medium" was invented by Takenori Fukumoto (Kamakura, Japan), Noritsugu Matsutani (Kokubunji, Japan), Yuzo Yamasaki (Fukuoka, Japan), Kohtaro Abe (Fukuoka, Japan), Kazuya Hosokawa (Fukuoka, Japan), Takeshi Kamitani (Fukuoka, Japan), Tomoyuki Hida (Fukuoka, Japan) and Kousei Ishigami (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulmonary embolism diagnosis support apparatus includes a hardware processor that: obtains a dynamic image of a chest of an examinee captu...