US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 23 for "Method for operating a computed tomography facility and computed tomography facility" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,082, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for operating a computed tomography facility and computed tomography facility" was invented by Bjorn Kreisler (Hausen, Germany), Benjamin Schweikert (Gutenstetten, Germany) and Florian Wolz (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a computed tomography facility includes, during an imaging process, dividing detector data into: (1) a first data stream with first detector data sufficient for the reconstruction of an evaluable computed tomography image dataset after completion of the raw data acquisition with the ...