ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,347, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"X-ray imaging apparatus and x-ray imaging method" was invented by Isao Takahashi (Chiba, Japan), Kazuki Matsuzaki (Chiba, Japan), Keisuke Yamakawa (Chiba, Japan) and Tadashi Nakamura (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an X-ray imaging apparatus that can understand a three-dimensional position of a treatment tool in real time during a medical operation without rotating a column of an X-ray tube.A first X-ray tube is disposed at a position at which a target part of a subject placed on a top plate is irradiated with X-rays, and a second X-ray tube i...