US Patent Issued to KONICA MINOLTA on Sept. 15 for "X-ray imaging system, X-ray imaging method, and X-ray imaging control apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,691, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to KONICA MINOLTA INC. (Tokyo).

"X-ray imaging system, X-ray imaging method, and X-ray imaging control apparatus" was invented by Yuuichi Maruta (Hino, Japan), Koutarou Kanamori (Hachioji, Japan), Nobuyuki Miyake (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryohei Ito (Hino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an X-ray imaging system capable of performing X-ray imaging by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and general imaging, the X-ray imaging system including: an X-ray emitter capable of individually emitting a plurality of X-rays having different energies; a portable X-ray detector that captures an X-ra...