ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,734, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NCX Corp. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Multi-beam X-ray source and method for forming same" was invented by Jian Zhang (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray source device includes an anode and an electron beam cathode system arranged to emit a plurality of electron beams therefrom toward the anode. A deflector device is disposed adjacent to the electron beam cathode system to manipulate interaction of one or more of the electron beams emitted by the electron beam cathode system with the anode. An associated method of forming an X-ray source device is also provided."
The patent was filed o...