US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Oct. 20 for "Computed tomography device with a body support apparatus including a board mounted pivotably about an axis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,846, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computed tomography device with a body support apparatus including a board mounted pivotably about an axis" was invented by Steffen Giebel (Wiesenthau, Germany), Martin Ramsauer (Pyrbaum, Germany), Jens Fehre (Hausen, Germany), Marco Koehler (Adelsdorf, Germany) and Jens Herbolzheimer (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computed tomography device has a gantry with an opening and a body support apparatus to support a body of a person, the body support apparatus has a board and is arranged relative to the opening such that a shoulder ...