US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on July 28 for "Computer-implemented method for operating an x-ray device, and x-ray device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,830, issued on July 28, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computer-implemented method for operating an x-ray device, and x-ray device" was invented by Stefan Schmidt (Stoernstein, Germany), Michael Meyer (Hausen, Germany) and Michael Poellath (Ebnath, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray device has a stand, a support arm, a mount and a C-arm, on which are arranged, opposing one another, an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector. The support arm is coupled to the stand at one end such that it can rotate about a first axis of rotation for the creation of a first degree of freedom of movement and t...