US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 24 for "Couchtop board overlay for a patient couchtop board and patient positioning device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,041, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Couchtop board overlay for a patient couchtop board and patient positioning device" was invented by Konstantin Knodt (Erbendorf, Germany) and Ralf Gaertner (Kemnath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A couchtop board overlay for a patient couchtop board extends along a longitudinal direction from a first end section to a second end section. The couchtop board overlay includes a first countercoupling interface in the first end section, wherein, in a state coupled to the first coupling interface, the first countercoupling interface is configured...