ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,341, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and control facility for controlling a computed tomography system" was invented by Matthias Lichy (Nuremberg, Germany), Bernd Hofmann (Erlangen, Germany), Claudia Lindner (Nuremberg, Germany) and Bernhard Schmidt (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a method for controlling a computed tomography system, the method comprising defining an examination region of an examination object; defining a number of interfering structures, wherein an interfering structure is a structure located within a...