US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics on May 12 for "Methods and apparatus for troubleshooting instrument malfunctions" (New York, New Jersey, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,814, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc. (Tarrytown, N.Y.).

"Methods and apparatus for troubleshooting instrument malfunctions" was invented by Arnold Rudorfer (Princeton, N.J.), Steven Magowan (Elkton, Md.) and Joel Cambron (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of troubleshooting non-event malfunctions. The methods include providing a database including pre-populated non-event issues and associated corrective actions, inputting search criteria regarding a particular non-event issue via entry of a search string at the user interface, parsing and normalizing the search string i...