US Patent Issued to CANON on April 1 for "Radiation detection apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,187, issued on April 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation detection apparatus" was invented by Hajime Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoyasu Soma (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Aoki (Tokyo), Motoki Tagawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroto Kondo (Tokyo) and Yutaka Ishinari (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection apparatus includes a housing that includes an incidence surface and a back surface located on the opposite side of the incidence surface, a sensor panel that is housed in the housing and configured to convert radiation incident from the incidence surface into an electrical signal, a conductive plate ...