ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,842, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Fiducials detection for movement estimation and guidance" was invented by Heber Alejandro Hernandez Barron (Salt Lake City), Jon Thomas Lea (Salt Lake City), Jordan Paul Brown (Woods Cross, Utah) and Rhianne Hsu (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray radiation source, an X-ray detector, and a C-arm having the X-ray radiation source disposed on a first end and the X-ray detector disposed on a second end opposite the first end. The X-ray imaging system is configured to translate the C-arm in multiple ...