ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,878, issued on July 29, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Radiation detecting apparatus, radiographic imaging system, and inclination angle outputting method" was invented by Tomonori Komasaka (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detecting apparatus detects radiation transmitted through a subject. The radiation detecting apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor detects rotation angles of the radiation detecting apparatus with respect to two mutually perpendicular axes to output angle information, and also detects an orientation of the radiation detecting apparatus. The hardware pr...