US Patent Issued to MOXTEK on March 31 for "Mounted planar filament" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,355, issued on March 31, was assigned to MOXTEK INC. (Orem, Utah).

"Mounted planar filament" was invented by Kasey Otho Greenland (South Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filament assembly 10 for an x-ray tube 20 can include a planar filament 11 electrically-coupled between and substantially-encircled by a pair of collector plates C1 and C2. The pair of collector plates C1 and C2 can support the planar filament 11 so that it does not twist or warp and align the filament assembly 10 within a cathode cup 33. The pair of collector plates C1 and C2 can block electrons emitted from a back side of the filament. Without the col...