ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,061, issued on May 19, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Control device and control method for electron emission device for X-ray generation" was invented by Youngsik Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Taehyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sungeun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Mikiko Ito (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device of controlling an electron emission device generating X-rays, the device comprising: an electron emission device including at least one of at least one cathode electrode, an anode electrode paired with the cathode electrode, and a gate electrode fo...