US Patent Issued to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence on March 24 for "Automatic patient positioning for medical equipment" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,484, issued on March 24, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Automatic patient positioning for medical equipment" was invented by Srikrishna Karanam (Cambridge, Mass.), Meng Zheng (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ziyan Wu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method and a system for automatic positioning of a medical equipment with respect to a patient. The method includes obtaining sensor data related to the patient, from a plurality of sensors fixed relative to the medical equipment. The method further includes processing the sensor data to determine at least one pose characte...