US Patent Issued to Rapiscan Holdings on April 22 for "Methods and systems for the concurrent generation of multiple substantially similar X-ray beams" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,389, issued on April 22, was assigned to Rapiscan Holdings Inc. (Hawthorne, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for the concurrent generation of multiple substantially similar X-ray beams" was invented by Mark Procter (Wilmslow, Great Britain), James Ollier (Huyton, Great Britain) and David Johnson (Stoke-onTrent, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable collimator device for collimating a beam of energy emitted from a radiation source is disclosed. The collimator has an elongated plate-like body with a front-end and a rear-end. The collimator has a first set of emission apertures equally spaced around a central axis of th...