ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,582, issued on July 1, was assigned to Viken Detection Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).
"X-ray scanning system" was invented by Peter John Rothschild (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray scanning system, and corresponding method, includes an x-ray source that produces incident x-ray radiation having end-point x-ray energy, which, in various embodiments, can be greater than about 200 keV, between about 200 keV and about 500 keV, or greater than about 500 keV. The system also includes a disk chopper wheel that can be irradiated by and attenuate the incident x-ray radiation. The disk chopper wheel further defines one or more ...