US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on May 5 for "X-ray imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,437, issued on May 5, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"X-ray imaging apparatus" was invented by Daisuke Matsuki (Kyoto, Japan) and Junya Yamamoto (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This X-ray imaging device has an X-ray source, an X-ray detector, an image generation unit for generating an X-ray image, a site acquisition unit for acquiring a region for each site in the X-ray image based on a trained model, a region-of-interest selection unit for selecting a region-of-interest, and an X-ray condition adjustment unit to adjust the conditions of X-rays emitted from the X-ray source based on a first pixel value that...