ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,079, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Computed tomography apparatus" was invented by Sho Shimizukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Tajima (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Taneichi (Kanagawa, Japan), Naoyuki Nishino (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hisatsugu Horiuchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CT apparatus includes a plurality of imaging units, a rotation mechanism, a radiation source elevating mechanism, a detector elevating mechanism, and a CPU. The imaging unit includes a radiation source that emits radiation having a quadrangular pyramid shape to a subject and a radiation detector in which a plurality o...