US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Sept. 29 for "Reliable first-fault-safety detection of collisions in medical devices" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,970, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Reliable first-fault-safety detection of collisions in medical devices" was invented by Martin Nolewaika (Erlangen, Germany) and Harald Karl (Fuerth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the normal mode of a medical device, a control apparatus moves a moving element of the medical device in a controlled manner via a drive when corresponding movement commands are issued. In the normal mode, an evaluation apparatus monitors a first-fault-safety contact element arranged on the medical device for actuation and, in the event of actuation, transmi...