ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,986, issued on May 5, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Detector module for an X-ray detector" was invented by Michael Grasruck (Eckental Forth, Germany), Stefan Wirth (Erlangen, Germany), Hannes Monius (Forchheim, Germany), Gottfried Tschopa (Baiersdorf, Germany), Stefan Wolfel (Dormitz, Germany) and Michael Teuber (Forchheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector module for an X-ray detector includes at least one sensor unit for detecting X-rays, and at least one anti-scatter grid in a stacking arrangement with the at least one sensor unit. The at least one sensor unit is fixed in place on the...