US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on March 3 for "Processing apparatus and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,386, issued on March 3, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Processing apparatus and control method" was invented by Ryohei Ogawa (Kokubunji, Japan), Hidetoshi Nishimura (Koganei, Japan), Mariko Otagiri (Sagamihara, Japan), Yuji Sakamoto (Tokyo), Nao Inoue (Isehara, Japan) and Shohei Hemmi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an endoscope system are described. The endoscope system can include a processing apparatus including a processor including hardware. The processor can acquire structure data of an organ, acquire an endoscope image from an imager of an endoscope, and acquire an ultrasonic image from a...