US Patent Issued to General Electric on Dec. 9 for "Detector with focally aligned pixels" (Wisconsin, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,003, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Detector with focally aligned pixels" was invented by Matthew Edward Dragovich (Evendale, Ohio) and Joseph Lacey (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises an energy source and detector. The energy source is configured to emit energy from a focal spot. The detector comprises an array of pixels. Each of the pixels of the array of pixels has a centerline extending longitudinally through the pixel. The centerline of each pixel is focally aligned with the focal spot of the energy source. Each of the pixels receives selected amounts of t...