US Patent Issued to MEDIT on July 14 for "Image processing method and image processing apparatus" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,026, issued on July 14, was assigned to MEDIT CORP. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image processing method and image processing apparatus" was invented by Dong Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sung Bin Im (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, according to the present invention, may sense an identifier positioned in a tip to identify unique information such as a serial number of the tip, and may update tip use information assigned to the identified unique information. In some cases, in connection with updating the tip use information, the use information may also be s...