ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,100, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Self-determined shot geometry for open-configuration portable x-ray computed tomography (CT)" was invented by Joseph T. Case (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Shant Kenderian (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-determined shot geometry for open-configuration portable x-ray computed tomography (CT) includes capturing one or more x-ray shot images into a computing system, and estimating an unknown constellation model and one or more shot geometries. It also includes reconstructing a volume image from the one or more captured shot images and the o...