ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,448, issued on April 22, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Micro focus X-ray tube using nano electric field emitter" was invented by Jin-Woo Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micro focus X-ray tube is provided. The micro focus X-ray tube has a bonding structure in which a ceramic and a metal without an exhaust pipe are stacked by using a nano electric field emitter of an excellent feature."

The patent was filed on Dec. 22, 2022, under Application No. 18/086,845.

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