ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,681, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"X-ray diagnostic apparatus, medical image processing apparatus, and medical image processing method" was invented by Akihito Takahashi (Nasushiobara, Japan), Haruki Iwai (Otawara, Japan), Tomoki Fujito (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Yuki Totsuka (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a two-dimensional first X-ray image based on X-ray imaging using a first continuous X-ray spectrum, and acquire a two-dimen...