ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,800, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray diagnostic apparatus, control method for X-ray diagnostic apparatus, and X-ray diagnostic system" was invented by Hirona Oikawa (Nasushiobara, Japan), Satoshi Yamashita (Utsunomiya, Japan), Mitsunobu Sugeno (Utsunomiya, Japan), Satoshi Tanaka (Nasushiobara, Japan), Mitsuru Sakata (Yaita, Japan), Katsuaki Shinoda (Shioyagun, Japan) and Takayuki Ishikawa (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires an image of a movable range...