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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2024
Filed:
May. 25, 2022
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs, Boxtel, NL;
Lester Donald Miller, Hudson, OH (US);
Nishant Singh, Son en Breugel, NL;
Bernd Menser, Hauset, BE;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present invention provides methods and devices for making an anti-scatter grid for a radiographic imaging device identifiable. A method for providing an anti-scatter grid () for a radiographic imaging device comprises forming, by an additive manufacturing process, a grid pattern () in accordance with a product specification of the anti-scatter grid () to be provided; and forming, by an additive manufacturing process, a number of structural modifications () in or at the grid pattern in a manner making the number of structural modifications () image-based recognizable when the anti-scatter grid () is viewed according to its intended use in a viewing direction from a radiation source of the radiographic imaging device, and in a unique identification pattern () creating a unique identifier to make the anti-scatter grid to be provided identifiable among one or more others.