US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Aug. 11 for "Active pixel sensors for photon counting X-ray detectors" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,369, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Active pixel sensors for photon counting X-ray detectors" was invented by Naresh Kesavan Rao (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Biju Jacob (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Collin William Hitchcock (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photon counting detector includes a plurality of detector sub-modules. Each detector sub-module includes a semiconductor substrate. Each detector sub-module also includes a plurality of active pixels configured to act as detector elements disposed on the semiconductor substrate. Each detector sub-module further includes a plur...