US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation detector, method and apparatus for controlling radiation imaging apparatus, and program for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,848, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation detector, method and apparatus for controlling radiation imaging apparatus, and program for the same" was invented by Kai Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichi Naito (Kanagawa, Japan), Keigo Yokoyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoya Suzuki (Tokyo), Akira Tsukuda (Tokyo) and Eriko Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A setting unit configured to set a reference orientation for calculating the orientation of a radiation detector and a reference orientation for calculating the orientation of the radiation generator sets the reference orientatio...