ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,064, issued on July 15, was assigned to Quadridox Inc. (Hillsborough, N.C.) and Duke University (Durham, N.C.).
"Method for capture of small-angle scatter over wide fields of view" was invented by Joel Alter Greenberg (Durahm, N.C.), Michael Eric Gehm (Hillsborough, N.C.), Anuj Jawahar Kapadia (Knoxville, Tenn.) and David Scott Coccarelli (Chapel Hill, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Estimate material coherent scatter form factors for voxels within a scan object by exposing a series of slices of the scan object to an X-ray fan beam within a coherent scatter scanner. Capturing coherent scatter data at a least two X-ray detector mo...