US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Anti-scatter grid with an end stop element for stacked arrangement with a sensor element" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,036, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Anti-scatter grid with an end stop element for stacked arrangement with a sensor element" was invented by Stefan Wolfel (Dormitz, Germany), Michael Teuber (Forchheim, Germany) and Michaela Katharina Faber (Mohrendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-scatter grid for stacked arrangement with a sensor element for the detection of X-ray radiation having a collimator element with a plurality of collimator walls having a wall height, that are arranged adjoining one another in at least one first direction perpendicularly to the stacking di...