ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,334, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inspection device" was invented by Yosuke Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Atsushi Kitabatake (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inspection device having a storage unit and an exposure dose calculation unit, the exposure dose calculation unit executes a first step for calculating the dose when an image is acquired by irradiating radiation from a radiation generator based on the reference dose stored in the storage unit, a second step for calculating the dose when the relative position between the radiation generator and an inspection object is changed, a third step for calculati...