US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL on May 5 for "System and apparatus for pre-collimation of a radiation beam" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,616,429, issued on May 5, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS INTERNATIONAL AG (Steinhausen, Switzerland).

"System and apparatus for pre-collimation of a radiation beam" was invented by Niklaus Schaer (Wikon, Switzerland), Juerg Zinniker (Aarau, Switzerland), Mathieu Plamondon (Glattbrugg, Switzerland) and Konrad Fellmann (Baden, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a pre-collimator and a shape filter. The shape filter is in at least a first portion of a first part of the pre-collimator."

The patent was filed on Sept. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18/467,944.

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