ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,324, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Creation method of trained model, image generation method, and image processing device" was invented by Wataru Takahashi (Kyoto, Japan), Shota Oshikawa (Kyoto, Japan), Yuichiro Hirano (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Yohei Sugawara (Chiyoda-ku, Japan), Zhengyan Gao (Chiyoda-ku, Japan) and Kazue Mizuno (Chiyoda-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a creation method of a trained model, a reconstructed image (60) obtained by reconstructing three-dimensional X-ray image data (80) is generated. A projection image (61) is generated from a three-dimensional model of an image...