ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,181, issued on Oct. 14, 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 emits radiation; a remote operation unit that is capable of remotely operating the device main body and is attachable to and detachable from the device main body; and a processor, in which the processor is configured to detect an attachment/detachment state of the remote operation unit with respect to the device main body, and ...