ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,810, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Carestream Health Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).
"Articulating arm for portable C-arm" was invented by Michael A. Litzenberger (Rochester, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile C-arm radiographic imaging system provides a rigid C shaped support arm for securing an x-ray source and an x-ray detector in a fixed spatial relationship relative to each other. A mobile base supports the rigid support arm using an articulating segmented arm attached to the base and to the rigid support arm. The articulating arm comprises three pivot mechanisms configured to manually translate the support arm relative to ...