ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,055, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Energy bin event counting system" was invented by Gregory T. Koker (Wilmington, Mass.) and Matthew A. Woodruff (Wilmington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is a method for binning charge events in a photon-counting CT scanning system comprising a plurality of discriminators, wherein each discriminator is associated with a respective one of a plurality of threshold voltage levels, the method comprising detecting a transition in a signal output from one of the discriminators; and incrementing a count corresponding to the threshold volt...