US Patent Issued to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment on March 31 for "Method and apparatus for determining touch panel to object distance in X-ray imaging" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,886, issued on March 31, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method and apparatus for determining 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: "The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for determining a touch panel to object distance (TOD) in X-ray imaging. This includes obtaining a three-dimensional image of a to-be-detected subject that includes an object; determining a source to image distance (SID) and a touch panel to detector distance (TDD); determini...