ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,063, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Analogic Corp. (Peabody, Mass.).
"Apparatus for vertical screening" was invented by Sevag Zoboyan (Wakefield, Mass.), Steven Weed (Marblehead, Mass.), Steven Urchuk (Melrose, Mass.) and Tom Ripp (Amherst, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer tomography (CT) imaging system is disclosed. The CT imaging system includes a rotatable gantry and a lift. The rotatable gantry forms a bore defining an examination region. The rotatable gantry is oriented with a central axis thereof in a substantially vertical direction and is configured to scan one or more objects in a substantially horizontal p...