US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 29 for "Medical imaging system and method for moving a computed tomography gantry" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,968, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Medical imaging system and method for moving a computed tomography gantry" was invented by Rita Krug (Fuerth, Germany) and Jan-Christoph Kiesel (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a medical imaging system comprising a computed tomography gantry; a carriage; and a rail system, wherein the computed tomography gantry is movably mounted via the carriage and the rail system such that the computed tomography gantry is translationally movable along the rail system, and the...