ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,024, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiation irradiation device" was invented by Kazuyuki Ogi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeyasu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Naoyuki Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation irradiation device includes: a device main body that irradiates a subject with radiation; a spacing ensuring unit that is a member extending from the device main body in an emission direction of the radiation to ensure a spacing between the subject and the device main body and is switchable between an unfolded state in which a length extending from the device main body is a pred...