ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,101, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Methods and systems for assisted diagnostic scan acquisition" was invented by Brian E. Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for an x-ray imaging system. In one example, a method for the system includes, responsive to operation of the x-ray imaging system in an automated mode, generating a difference image from a first image and a second image. The difference image is displayed at a display device to allow motion outside of a region of interest (ROI) to be detected based on analysis of the di...