ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,233, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system" was invented by Hiroto Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideaki Morita (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Serizawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel configured to generate a charge based on radiation, a readout circuit that reads out the charge from the pixel, a drive unit that drives the readout circuit, and an image processing unit that reads out the charge from the readout circuit and generates an image, and performs first control to supply power to the drive unit and the imag...