ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,053, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Radiation detection apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Masanobu Ohmura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Ryoki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takanori Yamashita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a direct-detection-type radiation detector provided in plurality and configured to be arranged in a planar manner; and a semiconductor integrated circuit configured to perform a control operation of the radiation detector or processing on a signal from the radiation detector, wherein the semicon...