US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on Feb. 17 for "System and method for determining a rotational offset of an anti-scatter grid for a computed tomography system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,176, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Tochigi, Japan).

"System and method for determining a rotational offset of an anti-scatter grid for a computed tomography system" was invented by Ilmar Hein (Vernon Hills, Ill.), Xiaohui Zhan (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Ruoqiao Zhang (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of imaging includes analyzing a first image to detect objects in the first image and corresponding features of the objects; based on a detection result of a first object having a corresponding first object feature in the first image, selecting an action corresponding to the first ...