ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,102, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"X-ray imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Onodera (Kyoto, Japan), Koki Yoshida (Kyoto, Japan) and Dai Hirose (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Xray imaging apparatus is provided with an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, an arm, an arm driving mechanism, an X-ray detector moving mechanism, a model acquisition unit for acquiring a subject model of a surface shape of the subject, and a controller configured to select a target position where a distance of the X-ray detector to a surface of the subject model is shorter, out of a first target positio...