US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on July 28 for "Radiation image imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,438, issued on July 28, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"Radiation image imaging apparatus" was invented by Sho Urushiyama (Kiyose, Japan) and Keisuke Koeda (Tokorozawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a radiation image imaging apparatus including: a radiation detector that detects radiation; a hardware processor that controls imaging of a radiation image by driving a readout circuit in a first power consumption mode or a second power consumption mode in which power consumption is larger than in the first power consumption mode; and a housing that houses the radiation detector and the hardware processor...