ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,367, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).
"Height compensation system for patient table" was invented by Jia Jian Chen (Shanghai) and Ping Zhu (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A height compensation system for a patient table, including: a light reflection block, which is disposed on a gantry side of a medical device, and is configured to reflect a received optical signal; a photoelectric detector, which is disposed on the patient table opposite to the light reflection block, and is configured to emit an optical signal outward and detect a reflected signal of the optical signal...