ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,623, issued on June 30, was assigned to AKADEMIA GORNICZO-HUTNICZA IM. STANISLAWA STASZICA (Cracow, Poland).

"Circuit and method for X-ray induced voltage pulse amplitude estimation in pixel readout channel" was invented by Anna Koziol (Cracow, Poland), Piotr Maj (Cracow, Poland), Robert Szczygiel (Cracow, Poland), Piotr Otfinowski (Cracow, Poland), Maciej Wielgosz (Cracow, Poland), Krystian Strzalka (Bilgoraj, Poland) and Damian Kuznar (Korczyna, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for an X-ray-induced voltage pulse amplitude estimation inside a pixel readout channel, in a hybrid pixel array detector, an input of the cir...