ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,468, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"High voltage cascade" was invented by Patrick Ludwig (Erlangen, Germany) and Michael Kraus (Forchheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stage outputs of a respective cascade half stage of the high voltage cascade are connected to stage inputs of the respective next cascade half stage of the high voltage cascade. Diode circuits are arranged on first additional circuit boards, which are connected electrically and mechanically to a main board of the high voltage cascade. The first additional circuit boards are oriented orthogonally to the main b...