US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on March 17 for "Methods and systems for aluminum filtration detection" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,288, issued on March 17, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for aluminum filtration detection" was invented by Stephane Papillon (Seine et Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for X-ray imaging systems. In one example, a method for measuring an equivalent aluminum filtration of a tabletop comprises acquiring a single X-ray image of a tabletop and an aluminum filtration scale using a detector; identifying a brightness of the tabletop and a brightness of the aluminum filtration scale in the single X-ray image; computing an aluminum equival...