US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for positioning movable component in X-ray imaging" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,120, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for positioning movable component in X-ray imaging" was invented by Xi Shuai Peng (Shanghai), Ralf Nanke (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany), Sven-Martin Sutter (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Zhang Ke You (Shanghai) and Jing Tai Cao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are described for positioning a movable component in X-ray imaging. The method comprises: acquiring a 3D image that is captured using a camera component and characterizes a motion process of a movable component; acquiring motion information of ...