ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,091, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Object visualisation in X-ray imaging" was invented by Stewart Matthew Young (Hamburg, Germany), Daniel Bystrov (Hamburg, Germany), Sven Kroenke-Hille (Hamburg, Germany), Heiner Matthias Brueck (Pinneberg, Germany), Jens Von Berg (Hamburg, Germany), Tim Philipp Harder (Ahrensburg, Germany) and Andre Goossen Sr. (Eldena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imaging system (100) includes an X-ray source (110) and an X-ray detector (120) that are separated by an examination region (150) for performing an X-ray imaging operation on an o...