ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,337, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Medical image capturing apparatus and control method of the same" was invented by Kazuma Takemoto (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a medical image capturing apparatus including a table on which a subject is placed, a scan gantry unit that includes a detection unit which detects a signal obtained from the subject, an image generation unit that generates a medical image by using a detection signal transmitted from the detection unit, a display unit that displays the medical image, a camera that images the subject on the table, and a process...