ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,081, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, control method, and control program" was invented by Yuji Ikeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device that controls an irradiation field of radiation with which a radiation detector is irradiated sets a first control amount that is an amount with which the irradiation field in a case where a required irradiation region which is an irradiation region of the radiation required in capturing a radiation image is a maximum region detectable by the radiation detector is extended outside the required irradiation region, to be smaller than a sec...