ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,503, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for establishing compensation information to compensate for a bending of a couch in computed tomography, computed tomography facility, computer program and electronically readable data medium" was invented by Matthias Baer-Beck (Spardorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments provides a method for establishing compensation information to compensate for a bending of a couch of an object table, in particular patient table, of a computed tomography facility under the weight of an object to be recorded, in partic...