US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Sept. 8 for "System and method for an intelligent scout scan technique to identify a high contrast object in a computed tomography scanner" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,314, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for an intelligent scout scan technique to identify a high contrast object in a computed tomography scanner" was invented by Arka Datta (Pewaukee, Wis.), John Moore Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.), Roy-Arnulf Helge Nilsen (Waukesha, Wis.), Brian Edward Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Holly Ann McDaniel (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes generating an image from scan data acquired during a non-diagnostic scan utilizing a computed tomography scanner. The computer-implemented method also includes...