US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 21 for "Integrated stationary and rotating computed tomography gantry structure with a unified drive" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,496, issued on July 21, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Integrated stationary and rotating computed tomography gantry structure with a unified drive" was invented by Vishwanath Nayak (Bangalore, India), Dhaval Pravinbhai Dangashiya (Ahmedabad, India) and Ramachandra Gururaja Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated gantry structure of a computed tomography (CT) imaging system includes a rotating component configured to couple to imaging components. The rotating component includes a drive mechanism integrated on the rotating component configured to drive rotation of the rotating...