ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,435, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Systems and methods to configure radiography systems" was invented by Camaron Lemmer (Saint Michael, Minn.) and Brett Muehlhauser (Prior Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method to configure a radiography system having a radiation emitter and a radiation detector involves: analyzing, using processing circuitry, a reference image captured using a first value of a first power parameter for the radiation emitter to determine a value of a focal spot size for the radiation emitter; based on a determined relationship between the first ...