ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,639, issued on March 18, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Sensor board, radiation imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, and method of manufacturing sensor board" was invented by Masao Ina (Kanagawa, Japan), Takamasa Ishii (Saitama, Japan), Masato Ofuji (Gunma, Japan) and Katsuro Takenaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor board comprising a substrate comprising a pixel region where pixels are arranged on a first surface of two surfaces, a scintillator arranged on one of the first surface and a second surface of the two surfaces and a light shielding member arranged on the surface on which the scintill...