US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 17 for "X-ray tube having at least one electrically conductive housing section" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,735, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"X-ray tube having at least one electrically conductive housing section" was invented by Joerg Freudenberger (Kalchreuth, Germany) and Wolfgang Schaeff (Burgthann, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an X-ray tube, an X-ray source and an X-ray facility. The X-ray tube may have a vacuum housing having at least one side surface, the vacuum housing comprises a cathode and an anode for generating X-rays. An acceleration path for emitted electrons is provided between the cathode and the anode via an applied high voltage. A fir...