US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 18 for "Apparatus and method for acquiring a position of a region to be examined" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,283, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for acquiring a position of a region to be examined" was invented by Johann Sukkau (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a medical imaging apparatus comprising a couch on which an object can be positioned for a medical imaging examination, a first acquisition apparatus which is embodied for acquiring a position of a region to be examined of the object, a projection apparatus which is embodied for a projection and/or display of a feedback marking at the acquired position of the region t...