US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on Aug. 25 for "Data reduction in spectral CT" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,446, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).

"Data reduction in spectral CT" was invented by Kevin Martin Brown (Highland Heights, Ohio), Thomas Koehler (Norderstedt, Germany), Michael Grass (Buchholz In der Nordheide, Germany), Peter Benjamin Theodor Noel (Unterfohring, Germany), Olivia F. Sandvold (Philadelphia) and Roland Proksa (Neu Wulmstorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a method for data reduction in the context of spectral CT imaging. The method comprises reducing the number of spectr...