US Patent Issued to Siemens Medical Solutions USA on Sept. 15 for "Pneumatic displacement mechanism for patient controlled placement and removal of an optical device in an imaging bore environment" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,809, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Siemens Medical Solutions USA Inc. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Pneumatic displacement mechanism for patient controlled placement and removal of an optical device in an imaging bore environment" was invented by James L. Corbeil (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Martin Judenhofer (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of placing an optical device onto a patient's eyes and removing the optical device from the patient's eyes when the patient is located in a patient bore of a medical imaging system having a confined headspace. The method includes providing a pneumatic device and a resilient element a...