US Patent Issued to Konica Minolta on April 15 for "State change tracking device, X-ray imaging system, state change tracking method of inspection target, and life estimating method of inspection target" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,622, issued on April 15, was assigned to Konica Minolta Inc. (Tokyo).

"State change tracking device, X-ray imaging system, state change tracking method of inspection target, and life estimating method of inspection target" was invented by Tadashi Arimoto (Hino, Japan) and Ikuma Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state change tracking device includes: a hardware processor that non-destructively tracks a state change of an inspection target by a plurality of reconstructed images acquired by imaging the inspection target placed under a specific environment by an X-ray Talbot imaging device over time."

The patent was filed on Oc...