US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 3 for "Radiography apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,297, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Radiography apparatus" was invented by Tatsuhiko Hayashi (Tokyo), Takafumi Ishitsu (Tokyo) and Taiga Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The radiography apparatus performs imaging in a plurality of imaging modes having different set beam widths in a rotation axis direction. A radiation detector has a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a first direction parallel to the rotation axis and a second direction orthogonal to the rotation axis, a plurality of first macro-pixels, each of which is obtained by grouping a first number of sub-pixels arranged in the first direc...