US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on May 13 for "Collimator assembly for an X-ray detector" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,761, issued on May 13, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Collimator assembly for an X-ray detector" was invented by Biju Jacob (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Mark Adamak (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Brian Yanoff (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jonathan Short (Ballston Spa, N.Y.), Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Katsumasa Nose (Tokyo) and Hengshan Gao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an X-ray imaging system having an X-ray source, an X-ray detector and a collimator assembly in the X-ray path between the X-ray source and the X-ray detector. The X-ray detector comprises a plurality of detector modu...