ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,775, issued on May 13, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"X-ray imaging system" was invented by Stewart Matthew Young (Hamburg, Germany), Benjamin Hawellek (Hamburg, Germany), Thomas Rohse (Braak, Germany), Nataly Wieberneit (Hamburg, Germany) and Christina Textor (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an X-ray imaging system (10), comprising: an X-ray image acquisition unit (20); and a processing unit (30). The processing unit is configured to instruct the X-ray image acquisition unit to carry out a sequence of scans of a body part of a patient. The X-ray im...