ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,710, issued on July 8, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Signal processing device for x-ray analysis" was invented by Yuta Saito (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a signal processing device for X-ray analysis capable of suppressing effects of increased background due to pile-up signals and suppressing the dead time from lengthening. A signal processing device for X-ray analysis includes a differentiating circuit configured to convert a plurality of staircase wave signals detected by the X-ray detector into differential wave signals, a digital filter configured to convert the differential wave signa...