ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,244, issued on April 14, was assigned to Varex Imaging Corp. (Salt Lake City).
"Electric motor for dual ended x-ray tube" was invented by Thomas Anton Morris (Spanish Fork, Utah), Shailesh Kapadia (Cincinnati), Patrick Lewis (West Jordan, Utah), Spencer Shore (Sandy, Utah) and Karma Sok-choekore (West Jordan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray tube includes a housing containing cooling oil and a vacuum envelope disposed within the housing and including a solid envelope wall. The oil is disposed between the housing and wall. An anode and cathode are arranged in a vacuum environment and surrounded by the wall. A rotor connec...