US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on April 7 for "Methods and systems for fast filter change" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,043, issued on April 7, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for fast filter change" was invented by Brandon Allan Smith (Waukesha, Wis.) and Holly Ann McDaniel (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for fasting switching a filter of an imaging system during a scan. In one embodiment, a system comprises a computation device with instructions stored in a non-transient memory to emit an X-ray beam via an X-ray source; move an imaging subject via a motorized table at a nonzero speed; while moving the imaging subject, acquire a dataset of the imaging subject by de...