US Patent Issued to PaloDEx Group on Nov. 18 for "X-ray imaging system for a cephalometric dentomaxillofacial x-ray imaging operation" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,869, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to PaloDEx Group Oy (Tuusula, Finland).

"X-ray imaging system for a cephalometric dentomaxillofacial x-ray imaging operation" was invented by Esa Suuronen (Kerava, Finland), Antti Karhunen (Helsinki) and Markus Rintamaki (Tuusula, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imaging system (100) for a Cephalometric dentomaxillofacial X-ray imaging operation. The imaging system comprises a controller (132), an X-ray emitter (104) for emitting X-rays (106), primary and secondary collimators (108, 110) for collimating the X-rays, an X-ray receiver (124) for receiving the X-rays from the emitter, a...