US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Dec. 30 for "System and method for a built-in alignment mechanism for an X-ray focal spot" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,969, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for a built-in alignment mechanism for an X-ray focal spot" was invented by Arka Datta (Pewaukee, Wis.), John Moore Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.), Ryan James Lemminger (New Berlin, Wis.), Daniel Joseph Grieshop (Wauwatosa, Wis.) and Roy-Arnulf Helge Nilsen (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for maintaining an X-ray focal spot position at a desired location on an X-ray detector of an X-ray imaging system include obtaining, via processing circuitry, a scan protocol for performing an X-ray scan with the X...