ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,600, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"Communication apparatus, X-ray CT apparatus, and communication method" was invented by Makoto Umehara (Yaita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a ring-shaped transmission path which is disposed in one of a fixed part and a rotating part and includes a plurality of transmission paths each configured to transmit transmission data including a transmission signal and a clock signal; a first coupler disposed in the other of the fixed part and the rotating part and ...