ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,858, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Method and apparatus for predicting failure of an X-ray tube" was invented by Heiner Daerr (Hamburg, Germany), Lester Miller (Hudson, Ohio) and Carolina Maria Ribbing (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for predicting maintenance and failure of X-ray tubes are disclosed. X-ray radiation signals are received directly from one or more X-ray detectors without being attenuated by an object or subject under examination. The unattenuated X-ray radiation signals and scan metadata data are stored in memory, and time do...