US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on July 29 for "Medical image diagnosis apparatus and ultraviolet-ray irradiation apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,870, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Medical image diagnosis apparatus and ultraviolet-ray irradiation apparatus" was invented by Yusuke Toki (Kita-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes an ultraviolet light source, processing circuitry, and an imaging equipment. The ultraviolet light source emits an ultraviolet ray. The processing circuitry controls irradiation of the ultraviolet ray to an irradiation object irradiated with the ultraviolet ray in an examination room by moving a position of the ultraviolet light...