ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,554, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus" was invented by Ryosuke Miura (Chiba, Japan) and Naoto Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus that is able to perform radiography using a grid in which a radiation transmissive layer and a radiation absorption layer each having a strip shape and extending in a first direction are alternately arranged in a second direction, the radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel unit including a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of detection pixels, wherein the plurality of detection pixels incl...