ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,377, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Air filter cleaning device and medical imaging system" was invented by Ying Zhang (Wuxi, China), Yalan Yang (Wuxi, China), Jie Wang (Wuxi, China) and Hongyu Zhao (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning device of an air filter of a medical imaging system includes: a linkage assembly; a filter cleaning assembly, mounted on the linkage assembly; and a driving assembly, connected to the linkage assembly and used, in response to a received control signal, to drive the linkage assembly to move so as to drive the filter cleaning assembly to m...