US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on March 24 for "X-ray diagnostic device and medical couch device comprising a couchtop, a drive mechansm, a console, and processing circuitry" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,367, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"X-ray diagnostic device and medical couch device comprising a couchtop, a drive mechansm, a console, and processing circuitry" was invented by Hiroshi Yoshida (Yaita, Japan), Keisuke Sugawara (Otawara, Japan), Katsuaki Shinoda (Shioya, Japan), Hisayasu Yumiza (Otawara, Japan), Kazuo Imagawa (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Ritsu Yokohama (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray diagnostic device according to embodiments includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a couchtop, a drive mechanism, an input interface, and processing circui...