US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on June 16 for "Systems and methods for an X-ray tube" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,073, issued on June 16, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for an X-ray tube" was invented by Antonio Caiafa (Waukesha, Wis.) and Alexander Ryan (West Milwaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for preventing hot landings of a motor of an X-ray imaging system in the event of a power loss. In an example, a method for an X-ray tube of an imaging system includes, during a scan of a subject with the imaging system, supplying energy from a main power supply to the X-ray tube in order to rotate a target of the X-ray tube, selectively recovering energy from...