US Patent Issued to REDLEN TECHNOLOGIES on July 8 for "Systems and methods for measuring bone mass density using energy discriminating photon-counting X-ray detector" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,087, issued on July 8, was assigned to REDLEN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Saanichton, Canada).

"Systems and methods for measuring bone mass density using energy discriminating photon-counting X-ray detector" was invented by Glenn Bindley (Victoria, Canada) and Krzysztof Iniewski (Port Moody, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining bone mass density (BMD) of a patient includes obtaining X-ray scan data of a region of interest (ROI) of the patient using an energy discriminating photon counting radiation detector, and calculating the bone mass density (BMD) of the region of interest of the patient based on detected X-ray ph...