US Patent Issued to Malvern Panalytical on Jan. 13 for "Parallel plate x-ray collimator having a variable acceptance angle and an x-ray analysis apparatus" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,621, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Malvern Panalytical B.V. (Almelo, Netherlands).

"Parallel plate x-ray collimator having a variable acceptance angle and an x-ray analysis apparatus" was invented by Vladimir Kogan (Almelo, Netherlands), Detlef Beckers (Almelo, Netherlands) and Alexander Kharchenko (Almelo, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an X-ray collimator for collimating an incident X-ray beam by limiting divergence of the incident X-ray beam, the X-ray collimator having a variable acceptance angle, an X-ray analysis apparatus comprising an X-ray collimator having a vari...