ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,486, issued on March 17, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).
"X-ray detectors with non-permanent interconnects" was invented by Marcelo C. Costa (Draper, Utah), Paul Pryor (West Jordan, Utah), Brian Crofts (Salt Lake City), Ivan P. Mollov (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard Weisfield (Saratoga, Calif.) and Rick E Colbeth (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an x-ray detector, comprising: a substrate including: a plurality of pixels; configured to convert incident x-ray into electrical signals; a plurality of data lines coupled to the pixels; a printed circuit assembly (PCA) includ...