ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,538, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray imaging apparatus, medical data processing apparatus and non-transitory computer medium storing computer program" was invented by Katsuaki Shinoda (Shioya, Japan), Keisuke Sugawara (Otawara, Japan), Mitsunobu Sugeno (Utsunomiya, Japan), Satoshi Tanaka (Nasushiobara, Japan), Mitsuru Sakata (Yaita, Japan), Takayuki Ishikawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Satoshi Yamashita (Utsunomiya, Japan), Yosuke Kayukawa (Otawara, Japan), Ko Fuchigami (Otawara, Japan) and Hirona Oikawa (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The X-ray imaging apparatus ...