US Patent Issued to CANON on June 24 for "Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,408, issued on June 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system" was invented by Ryunosuke Bannai (Kanagawa, Japan), Tetsunori Ojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Fujiyoshi (Irvine, Calif.) and Ryosuke Miura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus comprising pixels, a driver controlling the pixels via driving lines, a readout circuit reading out, via column signal lines, signals from the pixels and a detector detecting irradiation information of radiation separately from a radiation image, is provided. Each of the column signal lines is connected to...