US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Dec. 16 for "Optimized adjustment of a patient couch in the vertical direction" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,021, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Optimized adjustment of a patient couch in the vertical direction" was invented by Klaus Hruschka (Erbendorf, Germany), Harald Graf (Speichersdorf, Germany), Lutz Weiss (Bayreuth, Germany), Roland Schoecklmann (Kastl, Germany) and Paul Weidner (Pressath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical facility has a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive. An operating method for a medical facility with a patient couch having a position that can be adjusted in the vertical direction via a drive in...