US Patent Issued to Varex Imaging on July 29 for "X-ray detectors with plastic housings" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,674, issued on July 29, was assigned to Varex Imaging Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"X-ray detectors with plastic housings" was invented by Xiaoyang Shen (Salt Lake City), Marcelo C. Costa (Draper, Utah) and Matt McCabe (Kearns, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an x-ray detector, comprising: a plastic housing; a two-dimensional sensor array disposed in a within the plastic housing and configured to generate image data in response to incident x-rays; a front plate connected to the plastic housing, the front plate and the plastic housing forming an enclosure surrounding the two-dimensional sensor array; and a prin...