ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,194, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Controlling apparatus, radiation imaging system, controlling method of controlling apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Niibe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling apparatus capable of controlling radiation imaging by using auto exposure control of a radiation, the controlling apparatus comprising an estimating unit that estimates a radiation dose to be irradiated before the radiation is irradiated from a radiation generating apparatus, and a output unit that outputs information on an estimated radiation dose based ...