ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,394, issued on May 6, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Condition determination device, non-transitory recording medium, and condition determination method" was invented by Ikki Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A condition determination device includes a hardware processor that: acquires sensor information obtained by detecting information regarding a subject to be radiographed by using a sensor and order information regarding a radiographing order; and determines a radiographing condition by inputting the sensor information and the order information to a trained identifier."

The patent was filed on Dec. 23...