US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for controlling an X-ray tube filament" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,976, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for controlling an X-ray tube filament" was invented by Hua Li (Shanghai), Jiawen Zhou (Shanghai), Yifeng Jiang (Shanghai), Tao He (Shanghai) and Yong Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application disclosures a method for calibrating filament current data of an X-ray tube. The method includes obtaining a first value of tube current to be calibrated and a value of filament current to be calibrated, the tube current to be calibrated and the filament current to be calibrated corresponding to a first calib...