ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,847, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"CT detector module and CT device" was invented by Jan Wrege (Erlangen, Germany), Miguel Labayen De Inza (Forchheim, Germany), Robert John Ellwood (Erlangen, Germany) and Stefan Woelfel (Dormitz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CT detector module comprises at least one X-ray converter element which has an upper side and a lower side. At the upper side, the X-ray converter element has an X-ray detector layer, and at the lower side the X-ray converter element is secured to a heat-conducting module carrier. The X-ray converter element is in he...