US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 2 for "Position monitoring method and medical mobile X-ray device" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,496, issued on June 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Position monitoring method and medical mobile X-ray device" was invented by Alexander Gemmel (Erlangen, Germany), Martin OBa Kafentzis (Heroldsberg, Germany), Markus Weiten (Nuremberg, Germany), Achraf Soulami (Uttenreuth, Germany) and Randolph Setser (Cornelius, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For checking the positional accuracy, a method for automatically monitoring a position and/or an angle of inclination of a component of a medical mobile X-ray device using at least one inertial measurement unit is provided. The mobile X-ray device has a de...