ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,079, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"Exposure dose management system, dynamic imaging support apparatus, computer-readable medium, and exposure dose management method" was invented by Sumiya Nagatsuka (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an exposure dose management system including a first hardware processor that: manages exposure doses that a subject has received through imaging by a radiographic imaging apparatus in association with an imaging date and time; accepts a designation of a predetermined period; calculates a cumulative exposure dose obtained by accumulating exposure do...