US Patent Issued to VAREX IMAGING on Nov. 3 for "Field emission x-ray source and systems with distributed gettering" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,026, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to VAREX IMAGING Corp. (Salt Lake City).

"Field emission x-ray source and systems with distributed gettering" was invented by Thomas Anton Morris (Spanish Fork, Utah), Dave Kirkham (South Jordan, Utah) and Travis Harding (West Point, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include an x-ray source, comprising: a vacuum enclosure; one or more field emitters disposed along a line within the vacuum enclosure, each field emitter configured to generate an electron beam; an anode disposed within the vacuum enclosure and including a target configured to generate x-rays in response to the electron be...