ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,599, issued on March 17, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"X-ray imaging device with a reconfigurable image processing module" was invented by Maxwell J. Allen (Redwood City, Calif.), Mihir Shah (San Jose, Calif.) and Carlo Tognina (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include an x-ray imaging device, comprising: a sensor array configured to convert incident x-rays into electrical signals; a memory configured to store a static configuration data; a processor; a programmable logic device; and a communication interface; wherein: the processor is configured to apply the static configuratio...