US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 17 for "Controlling an object transport unit of an examination system by means of a touch-sensitive screen" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,171, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Controlling an object transport unit of an examination system by means of a touch-sensitive screen" was invented by Sven Helmecke (Nuremberg, Germany) and Bernd Kalnischkies (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An examination system is provided having an object transport unit for transporting an object to be examined into an examination region. A touch-sensitive screen is used that is configured to control a function and/or for visualizing a state of the examination unit, which may comprise a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) system....