US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Aug. 11 for "Field effect electron emitter with grouped part emission surfaces" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,269, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Field effect electron emitter with grouped part emission surfaces" was invented by Joerg Freudenberger (Kalchreuth, Germany), Michael Wimmer (Weisendorf, Germany), Anja Fritzler (Erlangen, Germany), Christoph Jud (Nuremberg, Germany) and Peter Geithner (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field effect electron emitter comprises a segmented emission surface and a control unit. The segmented emission surface has a plurality of field effect emitter needles and a number of segments, each segment having an activatable part emission surfac...