US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Method and apparatus for automatically aligning a scanner with an object to be scanned" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,304, issued on Nov. 4.

"Method and apparatus for automatically aligning a scanner with an object to be scanned" was invented by Michael Limoli (Merrimac, Mass.), Richard DeSalvo (Danvers, Mass.), Cory Robinson (Danvers, Mass.) and Ian MacKenzie (Danvers, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus for aligning a scan field of a medical scanner with a patient support, the apparatus comprising: at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a camera mounted to the medical scanner for imaging the at least one fiducial marker mounted to the patient support; a transport mechanism for moving the medical scanner relative to ...