ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,534, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).
"System and method for image quality protocol optimizer" was invented by Arka Datta (Taby, Sweden), John M. Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.), Clement Hemonnot (Waukesha, Wis.) and Roy A. Nilsen (Waukesha, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for adaptively configuring time delays between scans of a scan sequence performed using an imaging system, to maintain a temperature of components of an X-ray tube of the imaging system within a threshold temperature. A software tool is provided that allows a user to import, modify, and/or c...