ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,315, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray diagnosis apparatus and X-ray condition setting method" was invented by Yusuke Kanno (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yoshiyasu Hayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Akio Tetsuka (Shioya, Japan) and Tomukazu Ono (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured: to determine a region corresponding to a target object in an X-ray image, on the basis of the X-ray image; to calculate a statistical value related to the region, on the basis o...