US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on April 7 for "X-ray generation device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,581, issued on April 7, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"X-ray generation device" was invented by Naonobu Suzuki (Hamamatsu, Japan), Atsushi Ishii (Hamamatsu, Japan), Ryosuke Yabushita (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akimichi Shimizu (Hamamatsu, Japan), Naofumi Kosugi (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Ginji Sugiura (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray generation device includes: a housing; an electron gun including an electron-emitting unit that emits an electron inside the housing; a target that generates an X-ray upon an incidence of the electron inside the housing; a window member that seals an opening o...