US Patent Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute on July 14 for "Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for enhanced phase-contrast x-ray imaging" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,111, issued on July 14, was assigned to Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, Wash.).

"Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for enhanced phase-contrast x-ray imaging" was invented by Erin A. Miller (Richland, Wash.), Dustin M. Kasparek (Richland, Wash.) and Luke W. Campbell (Richland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an x-ray source configured to emit an x-ray beam along a beam path and through an object arranged for inspection in a field of view of the x-ray source; and an object grating, an analyzer grating, a detector grating, and a detector arranged with respect to each other in the field o...