US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 23 for "X-ray facility and method for operating an X-ray facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,576, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"X-ray facility and method for operating an X-ray facility" was invented by Bjorn Kreisler (Hausen, Germany), Edgar Goderer (Forchheim, Germany) and Stefan Wirth (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imager having an X-ray source, a semiconductor detector, and a processor. On a rear side of the semiconductor detector facing away from the front side, in each of a plurality of imaging regions of the semiconductor detector, at least one imaging electrode is arranged and a plurality of detectors each contact at least one of the im...