ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,176, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and apparatus to sharpen a radiographic image" was invented by Xavier Mancardi (Versailles, France) and Remy Andre Klausz (Neuilly sur Seine, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed to sharpen a radiographic image by capturing a radiographic image with a detector receiving a beam from a source and performing a digital correction to the radiographic image to generate a digital image with increased uniformity in sharpness compared to the radiographic image."

The patent was ...