ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,338, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo), National University Corporation OITA UNIVERSITY (Oita, Japan) and Fukuoka Institute of Technology (Fukuoka, Japan).

"Information processing system, endoscope system, information processing method, and annotation data generation method" was invented by Toshiya Kamiyama (Tama, Japan), Makoto Ishikake (Hachioji, Japan), Yusaku Fujita (Musashino, Japan), Tatsushi Tokuyasu (Fukuoka, Japan), Yusuke Matsunobu (Fukuoka, Japan), Masafumi Inomata (Oita, Japan), Tsuyoshi Etoh (Oita, Japan), Yuichi Endo (Oita, Japan), Kosuke Suzuki (Oita, Japan), Youhei Kouno (Oita, Japan), Hiroaki Nakanuma (Oita, Japan), Yoshinori Shirasaka (Oita...