ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,215, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Medical apparatus" was invented by Yasuhisa Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical apparatus includes a table portion that has a contact surface with which a subject comes into contact, a structural portion in which a relative position with the table portion is determined within a predetermined range, and a sterilization unit that is attached to the table portion or the structural portion and sterilizes the contact surface. The sterilization unit is configured to switch between a first state in which the sterilization unit is in contact with or...