ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,561, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ibex Innovations Ltd. (Durham, Great Britain).
"X-ray imaging system" was invented by Paul Scott (Sedgefield, Great Britain), Neil Loxley (Sedgefield, Great Britain) and Adam Ratcliffe (Sedgefield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing scatter correction on an X-ray image is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining an input image for processing based on a source X-ray image of a sample acquired using an X-ray detector, and determining a model of the sample based on the input image. The model is then evaluated by computing, based on the model, simulated X-ray image...