ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,289, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Radiation detector and nuclear medicine diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Motohiro Inoue (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector includes a sensor, an A/D converter, and processing circuitry. The sensor outputs a pulse signal based on incidence of radiation. The A/D converter generates digital data by performing A/D conversion on the pulse signal. The processing circuitry acquires temperature information of the A/D converter and outputs digital data that is compensated based on the temperature information."

The pate...