ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,276, issued on April 29, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for computer tomography X-ray data acquired at high relative pitch" was invented by Frank Bergner (Hamburg, Germany), Michael Grass (Buchholz In der Nordheide, Germany) and Thomas Heiko Stehle (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for correcting computer tomography ("CT") X-ray data acquired at high relative pitch, the apparatus comprising: an input unit (20); a processing unit (30); and an output unit (40). The input unit is configured to provide the processing unit with ...