ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,956, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KETEK GmbH Halbleiter- und Reinraumtechnik (Munich).
"X-ray source" was invented by Felix Dusberg (Munich), Florian Schneider (Munich), Michael Bachmann (Munich) and Andreas Pahlke (Brunnthal, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an X-ray source includes an electron source configured to emit electrons, an acceleration set-up configured to accelerate the emitted electrons and a transmission window downwards of the acceleration set-up, wherein the transmission window is configured to let through X-rays generated by the accelerated electrons, wherein the transmission window is loc...