ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,134, issued on April 21, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Imaging control apparatus and radiation imaging system" was invented by Nobuyuki Miyake (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Fukazu (Tokyo) and Keisuke Koeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging control apparatus includes a hardware processor that acquires a first imaging condition set as a imaging condition for a preliminary exposure performed prior to a main exposure that performs an exposure of radiation on a subject, and the hardware processor performs control based on compatibility of the acquired first imaging condition and a second imaging condition input...