US Patent Issued to Carestream Health on July 29 for "Image acquisition with multiple detectors" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,877, issued on July 29, was assigned to Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Image acquisition with multiple detectors" was invented by Xiaohui Wang (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jangho Park (Fairport, N.Y.) and David Y. Chan (Vaughan, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiography system having multiple digital radiographic detectors captures an image in each of the detectors when the x-ray source is fired. The detectors evaluate the captured images and a controller prioritizes the captured images according to the evaluations to determine which captured images are forwarded and in what order. At least one of the DR detectors capture...