ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,894, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, radiation imaging system, image processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Iwashita (Tokyo), Kosuke Terui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryuichi Fujimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus includes a processing unit configured to, by using a plurality of pieces of information that correspond to a plurality of mutually different radiation energies and that have been obtained by irradiating an object with radiation and performing imaging, and information regarding transmittance including scattered rays ...