US Patent Issued to Canon U.S.A. on March 18 for "Devices, systems, and methods for automated delay detection between medical-imaging devices" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,263, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon U.S.A. Inc. (Melville, N.Y.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for automated delay detection between medical-imaging devices" was invented by Justin Hotchkiss Palermo (Boston), Daisuke Yamada (Cambridge, Mass.) and James Hastings Houskeeper (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods obtain first imaging data and first timestamps that correspond to the first imaging data; obtain second imaging data and second timestamps that correspond to the second imaging data; demodulate the first imaging data to acquire a first timing signal; demodulate the second imagi...