ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,305, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"X-ray equipment" was invented by Masatoshi Kudo (Kashiwa, Japan), Yuko Aoki (Kashiwa, Japan) and Shigeharu Hirose (Kashiwa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "X-ray equipment that can protect an operator moving around in an imaging room from X rays. The X-ray equipment includes: an X-ray source that irradiates a subject with X rays; a detector that acquires projection data of the subject; and an image generator that generates an X-ray image of the subject using the projection data. The equipment further includes: a position calculating section that calculates the positi...