ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,364, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"X-ray diagnostic apparatus" was invented by Masaki Akiyama (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shumpei Ohashi (Otawara, Japan), Hiroshi Yoshida (Yaita, Japan), Kensei Narahara (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Masashi Hirasawa (Otawara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus comprising: an arm, a pair of grooved portions, a plurality of rollers, and a plurality of belts. The arm is configured to support an X-ray tube at one end and an X-ray detector at another end and has a shape of an arc. The grooved portions a...