US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Nov. 25 for "Intra-oral imaging system and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,341, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Intra-oral imaging system and imaging apparatus" was invented by Shigehiro Kitamura (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kazuhisa Miyaguchi (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intra-oral imaging system includes an imaging device and a control device. The imaging device includes an imager, a controller, and a case in which the imager and the controller are housed. The imager performs imaging detection for detecting radiation in order to acquire an image of an object and monitoring detection for detecting radiation in order to monitor the dose of rad...