US Patent Issued to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma on Sept. 23 for "Dead detector element detection" (Oklahoma, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,602, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma (Norman, Okla.).

"Dead detector element detection" was invented by Isaac B Rutel (Choctaw, Okla.), Jonthomas Box (Oklahoma City) and Adam Salazar (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises: performing training and testing of an initial machine model to create a final machine model, wherein the training and testing use focal loss; performing detection of dead detector elements in a digital detector of a second digital radiographic (DR) imaging system using the final machine model; and determining whether to replace or keep the ...