US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY, NIDEK on May 19 for "Fundus image processing device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,956, issued on May 19, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY (Sapporo, Japan) and NIDEK Co. LTD. (Gamagori, Japan).

"Fundus image processing device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions" was invented by Michiyuki Saito (Sapporo, Japan), Kousuke Noda (Sapporo, Japan), Kanae Fukutsu (Sapporo, Japan), Susumu Ishida (Sapporo, Japan), Ryosuke Shiba (Gamagori, Japan) and Yoshiki Kumagai (Gamagori, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor of a fundus image processing device acquires a fundus image 50 photographed by a fundus image photographing device....