US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Dec. 16 for "X-ray imaging apparatus and X-ray imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,032, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray imaging apparatus and X-ray imaging method" was invented by Kazuki Matsuzaki (Chiba, Japan), Isao Takahashi (Chiba, Japan), Keisuke Yamakawa (Chiba, Japan) and Tadashi Nakamura (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an X-ray imaging apparatus that can understand a three-dimensional position of a treatment tool in real time during a medical operation without rotating a column of an X-ray tube.A first X-ray image is acquired by irradiating a subject with X-rays from a first X-ray tube supported by a first column and detecting the X-rays transmitted...