US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on March 24 for "X-ray image acquisition device and X-ray image acquisition system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,867, issued on March 24, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"X-ray image acquisition device and X-ray image acquisition system" was invented by Haruki Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Masahiro Kamiya (Hamamatsu, Japan), Yukinobu Sugiyama (Hamamatsu, Japan), Naonori Hosoya (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Hidetoshi Yoshimura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray image acquisition device includes a pixel unit having M pixel arrays each including N pixel portions (N and M are integers of 2 or more), M circuit units, and a control unit. Each circuit unit includes T (T is an integer of N or more) adding sect...