US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 24 for "X-ray imaging apparatus and control method of x-ray imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,046, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"X-ray imaging apparatus and control method of x-ray imaging apparatus" was invented by Shinobu Takenouchi (Chiba, Japan) and Atsushi Ogawa (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an X-ray imaging apparatus that enables an operator to freely manually move an X-ray source along a rail installed on a ceiling or a floor, and can capture a fluoroscopic image. An X-ray control unit continuously emitting X-rays from an X-ray source and permits fluoroscopy only in a case in which one or more predetermined conditions, including a condition in which the X-ray sou...