US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on April 15 for "Systems and methods for computed tomography" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,577, issued on April 15, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for computed tomography" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Thibault (Waukesha, Wis.), Michael J. Utschig (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Ryan J. Lemminger (New Berlin, Wis.), Sergio Lemaitre (Whitefish Bay, Wis.), Dominique Poincloux (Yvelines, France) and Uwe Wiedmann (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images generated by a CT system by altering a shape of a focal spot of an X-ray emitter of the CT system. In one embodiment, a method comprises...