ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,086, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Controlling X-ray tube electron beam optics during KVP switching" was invented by Helmut Gerhard Schmucker (Hamburg, Germany) and Timothy Striker (Hamburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method of controlling electron beam optics of an X-ray tube during X-ray kVp switching. The method includes receiving (110) a tube voltage (11) and a filament current (12) corresponding to a first time point of an X-ray tube kVp switching cycle; calculating (120) with an X-ray tube emission curren...