ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,301, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"X-ray system and method for operation thereof" was invented by Joerg Freudenberger (Kalchreuth, Germany) and Petra Maurer (Heroldsbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray system includes an x-ray source which, when in operation, generates x-rays at a plurality of x-ray focal spots, with a collimator allocated in each case to each x-ray focal spot. The collimator selects x-rays generated in the respective x-ray focal spot and directed onto a common detector, collimators being in a fixed position in relation to the respective allocated x...