ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,871, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Sho Sasaki (Utsunomiya, Japan), Ryoichi Nagae (Nasushiobara, Japan), Masanori Matsumoto (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yoshiyasu Hayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shumpei Ohashi (Otawara, Japan) and Tomoki Fujito (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment includes a storage, an imaging equipment, a display, an input interface, and processing circuitry. The storage memorizes medical images. The imaging equipment includes an X-ray tube configured to emi...