US Patent Issued to THALES on Sept. 23 for "Backscattered x-photon imaging device" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,595, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).

"Backscattered x-photon imaging device" was invented by Thierry Lemoine (Velizy-Villacoublay, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device employing backscattered x-ray photons, includes a plurality of x-ray sources, all configured to irradiate an analysis region wherein an object to be imaged may be placed, and a pixelated x-ray detector placed so as to detect x-ray photons potentially scattered by the object."

The patent was filed on April 19, 2021, under Application No. 18/018,524.

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