US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 23 for "System and method for three-dimensional printing of collimator" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,848, issued on June 23, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for three-dimensional printing of collimator" was invented by Jaroslaw Kurzac (Oconomowoc, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a metallic grid structure includes utilizing 3D printing for printing a first layer of a first wall section of the metallic grid structure in a first direction along a first vector offset from a center line of the first wall section by half of a first distance of a first width of the first wall section that is orthogonal to the center line. The method also includes utilizing 3D printin...