ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,054, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to REDLEN TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Saanichton, Canada).

"Radiation detector module with local processing unit" was invented by Michael Ayukawa (Victoria, Canada), James Fujimoto (Saanichton, Canada) and Krzysztof Iniewski (Port Moody, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray detector module of a multi-module X-ray detector array having a local processing unit configured to provide real-time control and computational capabilities at the x-ray detector module. In various embodiments, by providing these capabilities in the detector module itself, as opposed to a component located downstream of the de...