US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods to improve X-ray tube filament failure prediction" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,336, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods to improve X-ray tube filament failure prediction" was invented by Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk (Vught, Netherlands), Johannes Henricus Maria Korst (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Tiblets Zeray Demewez (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Hans Peter Sprong (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable medium (26) stores instructions executable by at least one electronic processor (20) to perform a method (100) of monitoring a component (10) of a medical device (1), particularly an x-ray tube. ...