ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,767, issued on April 21, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Minato-ku, Japan) and NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium" was invented by Makoto Yasukawa (Tokyo), Keisuke Suzuki (Tokyo), Shuhei Noyori (Tokyo), Akimoto Nimura (Tokyo), Koji Fujita (Tokyo) and Takuya Ibara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an information processing apparatus and the like that are capable of dividing an image indicating movement of a subject into a chest region and an abdominal region along...