ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,191, issued on March 3, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Projection-domain material decomposition for spectral imaging" was invented by Bernhard Johannes Brendel (Norderstedt, Germany), Klaus Alfred Erhard (Hamburg, Germany), Claas Bontus (Hamburg, Germany), Artur Sossin (Hamburg, Germany), Axel Thran (Hamburg, Germany) and Heiner Daerr (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method (1), resp. a device, system and computer-program product, for material decomposition of spectral imaging projection data. The method comprises receiving (2) projection data acq...