US Patent Issued to TOPCON, TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, RIKEN on March 24 for "Ophthalmic information processing apparatus, ophthalmic apparatus, ophthalmic information processing method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,195, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOPCON Corp. (Tokyo), TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan) and RIKEN (Wako, Japan).

"Ophthalmic information processing apparatus, ophthalmic apparatus, ophthalmic information processing method, and recording medium" was invented by Toru Nakazawa (Sendai, Japan), Kazuko Omodaka (Sendai, Japan), Hideo Yokota (Wako, Japan), Guangzhou An (Tokyo) and Takuma Udagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ophthalmic information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit and a disease estimation unit. The acquisition unit is configured to acquire a plurality of images with different cross-secti...