ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,527, issued on June 9, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Photon counting detectors and medical imaging devices" was invented by Jingbo Li (Shanghai) and Zhen Nie (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a photon counting detector. The photon counting detector may include a crystal including a crystal cathode, a support, a conductive layer electrically connected to the crystal cathode, and a compression structure that is connected to the support and presses one side of the conductive layer on at least a portion of a surface of the crystal cathode."

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