ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,569, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).
"Remote control of cathode width voltage" was invented by Yannick Louvrier (Buc, France), Julien Nicolle (Buc, France), Antonio Caiafa (Waukesha, Wis.) and Loic Cabrol (Buc, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling an electron beam generated by an X-ray tube assembly including a unipolar cathode with a long cable between driving electronics of the cathode and the X-ray tube. A voltage supplied to a gridding electrode of the cathode is controlled by a multi-stage switching unit including a first control cir...