US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on June 24 for "X-ray diagnostic apparatus and tomosynthesis imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,850, issued on June 24, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray diagnostic apparatus and tomosynthesis imaging method" was invented by Yoshimasa Kobayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yasuhiro Sugawara (Nasushiobara, Japan), Seiichi Nishizuka (Nasushiobara, Japan), Takehiro Fukuzaki (Utsunomiya, Japan), Daisuke Sato (Utsunomiya, Japan), Tatsuaki Kodaka (Nasushiobara, Japan), Akitoshi Sato (Otawara, Japan) and Tomio Maehama (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes an X-ray irradiator, a scatterer, a grid, and a detector. The X-ray irr...