US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Nov. 4 for "Systems and methods for processing and visualizing tube current modulations in medical imaging devices" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,302, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Systems and methods for processing and visualizing tube current modulations in medical imaging devices" was invented by Thomas Buelow (Grosshansdorf, Germany), Tim Philipp Harder (Ahrensburg, Germany), Hrishikesh Narayanrao Deshpande (Hamburg, Germany), Axel Saalbach (Hamburg, Germany), Christopher Brian Martel (Cambridge, Mass.) and Stewart Matthew Young (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When performing an imaging scan on a patient, x-ray tube currents are modulated as the scan is performed. The x-ray tube current values and modu...