US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY, ANSeeN on Sept. 16 for "Radiographic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,736, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY (Japan) and ANSeeN Inc. (Japan).

"Radiographic device" was invented by Toru Aoki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Katsuyuki Takagi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Akifumi Koike (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels configured to generate an electric charge corresponding to energy or the number of particles of incident radiation, a plurality of signal processing parts respectively connected to the plurality of pixels and configured to generate a digital value based on the electric charge provi...