ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,490, issued on March 17, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Recalibration of a radiation detector" was invented by Bjoern Kreisler (Hausen, Germany) and Florian Wolz (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibration of a radiation detector with a plurality of pixels is described. In the method, the radiation detector is recalibrated via recalibrated signal threshold value-signal energy value pairs. A recalibration facility is also described. Moreover, a radiation detector and an imaging system are described."

The patent was filed on Nov. 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/959,771...