ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,568, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging control apparatus, image processing apparatus, radiation imaging control method, image processing method, storage medium, and radiation imaging system" was invented by Manami Hikosaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Ikeda (Shizuoka, Japan) and Yasutomo Shimizu (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging control apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by capturing an image of a subject, a foreign matter detection unit configured to detect, i...