US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Oct. 20 for "Rotating nuclear medicine detector with two collimators" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,850, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Rotating nuclear medicine detector with two collimators" was invented by Asaf Shtern (Moshav Betset, Israel) and Michael Luybansky (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation detector head assembly includes a detector column including a detector having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The detector column includes a first collimator disposed over the first surface of the detector and a second collimator disposed over the second surface of the detector. The detector column includes a first radiation shiel...