US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 15 for "Smart power system and method to protect an X-ray tube during a power outage" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,960, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Smart power system and method to protect an X-ray tube during a power outage" was invented by Xiaoxu Liu (Hartland, Wis.), Tao Hou (Brookfield, Wis.), David Pitterle (Waukesha, Wis.) and Yoshio Takaichi (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart power system and method to protect an X-ray tube of a CT imaging system during a power outage, the system and method comprising monitoring a remining amount of power from a backup power source supplied by an UPS coupled to a PDU that is providing power to the CT imaging system. The X-ray tub...