US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Feb. 18 for "Biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same" (New York, South Carolina, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,494, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Biased cathode assembly of an X-ray tube with improved thermal management and a method of manufacturing same" was invented by Andrew Thomas Cross (Waterford, N.Y.), Uwe Wiedmann (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Marshall Gordon Jones (Scotia, N.Y.), Carey Rogers (Waukesha, Wis.), John Scott Price (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Joseph Darryl Michael (Delmar, N.Y.), Sergio Lemaitre (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Fulton Jose Lopez (Simpsonville, S.C.), Vasile Bogdan Neculaes (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Steve Buresh (Cohoes, N.Y.) and David Wagner (Ballston Spa, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Off...