US Patent Issued to Carestream Health on Nov. 3 for "Gated breathing radiographic trigger" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,533, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Gated breathing radiographic trigger" was invented by Xiaohui Wang (Pittsford, N.Y.), Luca Bogoni (Philadelphia), Robert S. Jones (Rochester, N.Y.) and Charles W. Hicks (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of activating an x-ray source includes monitoring a patient's breathing using a depth camera aimed at the patient and detecting cyclical peaks in depth data provided by the depth camera. The x-ray source is activated at a predetermined time based on the detected cyclical peaks in order to capture a radiographic image of the patient ...