ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,505, issued on July 21, was assigned to Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Radiographic imaging method and apparatus" was invented by Hongqi He (Shenzhen, China), Peng Xu (Shenzhen, China), Shuangshuang Li (Shenzhen, China) and Jiye Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiographic imaging method includes: obtaining a posture image of an object under examination located at a shooting position between a radiation source and a detector; obtaining items concerning posture from an image based on the posture image, the items concerning posture including a region of interest of the obje...