ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,393, issued on May 6, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, image acquisition device, control method, and control program" was invented by Keiji Tsubota (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Takayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device comprising at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: acquire type information indicating a type of a compression member attached to an image acquisition device that captures a radiation image by irradiating a breast in a compressed state between an imaging table and the compression member with radiation; and set an upper limit...