US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS on Feb. 10 for "Functional evaluation system of hippocampus and data creation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,179, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS (Okinawa, Japan).

"Functional evaluation system of hippocampus and data creation method" was invented by Shogo Ishiuchi (Okinawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional evaluation system of hippocampus that includes: an acquisition unit that acquires image data representing a hippocampus of a subject; and an identification unit that identifies volume data representing a volume of a left hippocampal-amygdaloid transition area of the subject, in accordance with the image data."

The patent was filed on Dec. 3, 2021, under Application No. 18/039,054.

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