US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 24 for "Computed tomography device and method for covering a region to be covered of a gantry of a computed tomography device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,362, issued on March 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computed tomography device and method for covering a region to be covered of a gantry of a computed tomography device" was invented by Christoph Eichner (Erlangen, Germany), Viktor Loewen (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and Hans-Juergen Mueller (Pretzfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computed tomography device has a gantry having a first gantry part, a second gantry part and a flexible material sheet. The first gantry part has a rotor having a projection data acquisition system and is movably mounted, via a linear guiding arrangement, rela...