ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,580, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"X-ray generating apparatus and imaging device" was invented by Xiao Xing Wang (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray generating apparatus and an imaging device. The X-ray generating apparatus includes: a casing; a heat-conduction member, the heat-conduction member being arranged to run through the casing, and a through-channel being provided in the interior of the heat-conduction member, the through-channel being configured to circulate a cooling medium; an anode target, the anode target being configured to receive electron bombardmen...