ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,261, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Operating a filament of an X-ray tube" was invented by Hans Peter Sprong (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to operating a filament of an X-ray tube. In order to provide X-ray tubes with improved wear out, a control device (10) for pulsed operation of a generator for an X-ray tube is provided. The X-ray tube may be controlled to provide a plurality of X-ray pulses, wherein two subsequent pulses are temporally separated by an emission pause. The emission pause comprises at least a first part and a...