US Patent Issued to VAREX IMAGING, VEC IMAGING on March 24 for "X-ray source with multiple grids" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,132, issued on March 24, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City) and VEC IMAGING GMBH & Co. KG (Erlangen, Germany).

"X-ray source with multiple grids" was invented by Houman Jafari (Erlangen, Germany), Bo Gao (Morrisville, N.C.), Vance Scott Robinson (South Jordan, Utah), Colton B. Woodman (Magna, Utah) and Mohamed Zaza (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an x-ray source, comprising: an anode; a field emitter configured to generate an electron beam; a first grid configured to control field emission from the field emitter; a second grid disposed between the first grid and the anode;...