US Patent Issued to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS on Sept. 8 for "X-ray generator" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,752, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"X-ray generator" was invented by Daiki Nishino (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray generator includes: a cathode electrode configured to emit electrons; an adjustment electrode configured to adjust an amount of electrons emitted from the cathode electrode; a control electrode configured to control a trajectory of the electrons from the cathode electrode; a target configured to generate an X-ray by incidence of the electrons; a discharge detection unit configured to detect discharge between the cathode electrode and the adjustme...