US Patent Issued to Canon on April 7 for "Radiographic imaging apparatus and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,049, issued on April 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiographic imaging apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Shimpei Tezuka (Tochigi, Japan) and Akiya Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiographic imaging apparatus configured to be able to communicate with a control apparatus includes: a radiation detecting unit configured to detect incident radiation rays to acquire a radiographic image; a storage unit configured to, in a case where radiographic imaging is performed when in a first imaging state, in which a state of communication with the control apparatus is abnormal, store radio...