US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on April 7 for "Methods and systems for adjusting subject table behaviors" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,161, issued on April 7, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for adjusting subject table behaviors" was invented by Andrew Moulton (Waukesha, Wis.), Mark David Schmieding (Pewaukee, Wis.), Julie Silvers (Milwaukee), Nicolas Escobar (Milwaukee) and Jiaqi Li (Pewaukee, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for adjusting behavior of a manually driven subject table based on a strength and/or a direction of a magnetic field as detected by a passive sensor of the manually driven subject table. In some embodiments, a medical imaging system comprises a manua...