US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on Oct. 21 for "Predicting tube degradation via filament or exposure fingerprints using neural networks" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,985, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Predicting tube degradation via filament or exposure fingerprints using neural networks" was invented by Andre Goossen (Eldena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method and system for predicting X-ray degradation, the system comprising; a generator (10) configured to generate a deployment fingerprint data set for recording cumulative radiation exposure of a currently deployed X-ray tube; a database (20) configured to provide a training data set comprising multiple tube fingerprint data sets for recording...