US Patent Issued to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment on April 14 for "Visualization of touch panel to object distance in X-ray imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,353, issued on April 14, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Visualization of touch panel to object distance in X-ray imaging" was invented by Xi Shuai Peng (Shanghai), Jing Tai Cao (Shanghai) and Yun Zhe Zou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for visualization of a touch panel to object distance (TOD) in X-ray imaging. The method includes: obtaining a three-dimensional image of a to-be-detected subject that includes an object; determining a TOD; generating a first identifier at a position of a touch panel in the three-dimensional image; and generating a second identifier i...