ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,032, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic imaging system" was invented by Shutaro Kunieda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Katsuro Takenaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiographic imaging apparatus includes, in an image capturing region in which multiple pixels for obtaining radiological image data are arranged in rows and columns, a pixel array including a detection pixel group of a plurality of detection pixels for detecting the radiation dose, a control unit configured to control the image capturing, an image capturing unit configured to capture an ima...