US Patent Issued to Empyrean Medical Systems on June 24 for "Three-dimensional beam forming X-ray source" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,968, issued on June 24, was assigned to Empyrean Medical Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.).

"Three-dimensional beam forming X-ray source" was invented by Kalman Fishman (Boca Raton, Fla.), Christopher W. Ellenor (Toronto), Donald Olgado (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chwen-Yuan Ku (San Jose, Calif.), Tobias Funk (Martinez, Calif.), Petre Vatahov (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher R. Mitchell (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Brian P. Wilfley (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating X-ray photons. The methods comprise: generating an electron beam; positioning hollow pedestals in the path of the electron beam (the h...