ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,193, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Detector module for an X-ray detector having a heating layer" was invented by Michael Hosemann (Erlangen, Germany) and Andrea Zang (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a detector module for an X-ray detector comprising a sensor layer in a stacked construction configured to convert incident X-ray radiation into electrical signals; a readout layer configured to read out the electrical signals from the sensor layer; and a heating layer, the heating layer including a plurali...