US Patent Issued to VIKEN DETECTION on Aug. 25 for "X-ray chopper wheel assembly and method" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,966, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to VIKEN DETECTION Corp. (Burlington, Mass.).

"X-ray chopper wheel assembly and method" was invented by Peter J. Rothschild (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An x-ray chopper wheel assembly includes a disk chopper wheel and a source-side scatter plate that has a solid cross-sectional area that absorbs x-ray radiation and is substantially smaller than a solid cross-sectional area of the disk chopper wheel. The assembly also includes a support structure that secures the source-side scatter plate substantially parallel to the disk chopper wheel, with a source-side gap between the scatter ...