US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 30 for "Floating cradle patient table with multi-modality imaging capability" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,967, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Floating cradle patient table with multi-modality imaging capability" was invented by Dhaval Pravinbhai Dangashiya (Ahmedabad, India), Ramachandra Gururaja Rao (Bangalore, India), Vishwanath Nayak (Bangalore, India) and Goutam Maji (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient table for a computed tomography (CT) imaging system is provided. The patient table includes a base. The patient table also includes a floating cradle configured to support a subject to be imaged and to move bi-directionally relative to the base. The patient tabl...