US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Radiation imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,504, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging system" was invented by Katsuhiro Nishijima (Kanagawa, Japan), Daisuke Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuma Obara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging system includes a radiation imaging apparatus configured to transmit, based on electric charge generated in response to irradiation with radiation and a target value, a signal related to control of irradiation with radiation to an external apparatus; and a control apparatus configured to generate a target dose index value that is based on the target value and a dose index value that is ba...