US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 11 for "Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,314, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroto Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan) and Mina Takeshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mechanism for enabling a radiation generation apparatus to accurately perform control processing to stop irradiation of radiation. The mechanism includes a dose calculation unit that calculates a cumulative dose of radiation detected by a sensor unit from start of imaging, a timer unit that measures an irradiation time for radiation from a predetermined timing...