ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,394, issued on May 6, was assigned to Baker Hughes Holdings LLC (Houston).

"Apparatus and method for computed tomography system calibration" was invented by Alexander Suppes (Garbsen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for calibrating a computed tomography (CT) scanner including scanning a calibration apparatus with the CT scanner, and determining a first scan edge of a first calibration layer, a second scan edge of a second calibration layer, and a floating point of an opening from the scan. The method also includes determining a first scan dimension and second scan dimension measured in the longitudinal dire...