US Patent Issued to VAREX IMAGING, VEC Imaging on May 5 for "Hybrid multi-source x-ray source and imaging system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,544, issued on May 5, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City) and VEC Imaging GmbH & Co. KG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Hybrid multi-source x-ray source and imaging system" was invented by Houman Jafari (Erlangen, Germany), Bo Gao (Morrisville, N.C.) and Vance Scott Robinson (South Jordan, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a system, comprising: at least one x-ray source, each x-ray source including: an electron source configured to generate an electron beam; and a target configured to receive the electron beam and convert the electron beam into an x-ray beam; and a collimator. A first edge of the colli...