US Patent Issued to CANON on May 13 for "Radiation imaging system and control method thereof" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,779, issued on May 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging system and control method thereof" was invented by Takanori Taya (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshikazu Tamura (Tochigi, Japan), Sota Torii (Tokyo), Tetsunori Ojima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Fujiyoshi (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging system comprises a sensor unit of a radiation imaging device, detecting an incident radiation R irradiated from a radiation generator; an arithmetic unit calculating an accumulated dose of the radiation detected by the sensor unit; and an imaging control unit outputting an irradiation stop signal for...