ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,113, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Lumafield Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"X-ray device with folded field-of-view" was invented by Adam P. Damiano (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray device includes an X-ray source, a scintillator, a single mirror, and a camera. The camera has a field-of-view around an optical axis of the camera. The single mirror fully contains the field-of-view as the field-of-view is folded by the single mirror toward the scintillator. The single mirror is positioned at an angle with respect to a plane that is normal to the optical axis at a point where the optical axis intersects the single ...