US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 8 for "Detector module for an X-ray detector having a heating layer" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,236, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Detector module for an X-ray detector having a heating layer" was invented by Michael Hosemann (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detector module for an X-ray detector comprises: a stacked structure having a sensor layer, a readout layer, a heating layer, and a wiring unit, wherein the wiring unit is positioned after the heating layer in the stacked structure. The heating layer is partitioned into a plurality of heating subregions, each of which includes at least one heating element, and with each of which contact can be made indiv...