ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,731, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Processing system" was invented by Takeaki Itsuji (Hiratsuka, Japan), Takahiro Sato (Ebina, Japan), Yasushi Koyama (Kamakura, Japan), Toshifumi Yoshioka (Hiratsuka, Japan), Eiichi Takami (Chigasaki, Japan), Noriyuki Kaifu (Atsugi, Japan), Jun Iba (Yokohama, Japan) and Rei Kurashima (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system comprising a first imaging system configured to capture a first image based on a terahertz wave from an inspection target, a second imaging system configured to capture a second image of the inspection target based on an electroma...