ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,491, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Housing for shielding and an imaging apparatus using the same" was invented by Guanghe Wu (Shanghai), Haojie Yi (Shanghai) and Peng Liu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing in an imaging apparatus is provided. The imaging apparatus may include a Magnetic Resonance (MR) component and a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) component that includes a plurality of detectors. The housing may include one or more enclosed spaces configured to accommodate the plurality of detectors of the PET component. Each of the one or more enclosed...