US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 18 for "Technique for compensating an X-ray grid shadow using an actuator system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,338, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Technique for compensating an X-ray grid shadow using an actuator system" was invented by Stefan Friedrich (Stegaurach, Germany) and Philipp Bernhardt (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for controlling a compensation actuator system for compensating a shadow of an X-ray scattered radiation absorption grid in an X-ray image recorded with a pivotably mounted X-ray device, for example in real time, includes a method with a step of receiving motion state data indicative of a motion state of an X-ray device. The X-ray device ...