US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 8 for "Method for identifying a change in truncation, control facility, CT apparatus, computer program and electronically readable data carrier" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,396, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for identifying a change in truncation, control facility, CT apparatus, computer program and electronically readable data carrier" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany) and Michael Manhart (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for identifying a change in truncation of an examination object between first projection photographs of the examination object generated by a CT apparatus, and second projection photographs of the examination object generated by the CT apparatus, comprising the...