US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Oct. 21 for "Cathode device with improved electron emitter contacting" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,318, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Cathode device with improved electron emitter contacting" was invented by Michael Wimmer (Weisendorf, Germany), Joerg Freudenberger (Kalchreuth, Germany), Anja Fritzler (Erlangen, Germany), Christoph Jud (Nuremberg, Germany) and Peter Geithner (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a cathode device and an X-ray source. The cathode device for an X-ray source has an electron emitter including a plurality of field effect emitter elements aligned in parallel to form an emission surface on the upper ...