ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,500, issued on July 21, was assigned to Positrigo AG (Zurich).
"Detector for a positron emission tomography (PET)-scanning device" was invented by Jannis Nikolaus Rudolf Fischer (Zurich, Switzerland) and Max Ludwig Ahnen (Zurich, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector (2) for a positron emission tomography (PET)-scanning device is provided, the detector (2) including an opening (28) sized to accommodate the head of a human patient (P) and a plurality of sensor modules (22), which serve to detect emitted PET-radiation from the human patient (P) and which are arranged in the form of a regular polygon having a plurality o...