ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,290, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to incoatec GmbH (Geesthacht, Germany).
"X-ray tube with flexible intensity adjustment" was invented by Paul Radcliffe (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Hoffmann (Guelzow, Germany), Kaan Atak (Hamburg, Germany) and Carsten Michaelsen (Artlenburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray tube includes a thermionic cathode generating an electron beam propagating from the cathode to a target along a beam axis. The x-ray tube has apertures in the form of a control electrode with a first aperture opening, a focusing electrode with a second aperture opening and a beam shaping electrode with a third a...