ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,505, issued on March 25, was assigned to DETECTION TECHNOLOGY OYJ (Oulu, Finland).
"Detector pixel floating" was invented by Matti Kauppinen (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko Matikkala (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object to provide a device and a method for x-ray and/or gamma ray detection. a detector comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel in the plurality of pixels being switchable between a floating mode and a detection mode, wherein each pixel in the plurality of pixels is configured to detect incident x-ray and/or gamma ray radiation when in the detection mode; a control unit coupled to the detector, conf...