US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on July 21 for "Alignment of images from a multi-modality imaging system" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,506, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Alignment of images from a multi-modality imaging system" was invented by Keith Gerlach (Knoxville, Tenn.), Shikui Yan (Knoxville, Tenn.), Paul Schleyer (Knoxville, Tenn.), Riley Toll (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Mariah Crosby (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for aligning images from a multi-modality imaging system. A first image of a phantom positioned on a patient table may be acquired using a first camera of first modality in the multi-modality imaging system. The phantom may include first and second hot rods, as well ...