ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,838, issued on July 7, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for a positioning control of an object under investigation before acquiring a projective x-ray image" was invented by Andreas Fieselmann (Erlangen, Germany), Ramyar Biniazan (Nuremberg, Germany), Sven-Martin Sutter (Herzogenaurach, Germany) and Magdalena Herbst (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for position control of an object under investigation before acquiring a projective X-ray image of a region of interest, the computer-implemented method comprising: receiving object information of the object...