US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on July 1 for "Methods and systems for MRI patient prescreening" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,111, issued on July 1, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Milwaukee).

"Methods and systems for MRI patient prescreening" was invented by Yuechen Liu (Beijing), Fan Yang (Beijing) and Kun Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for pre-screen procedure for medical imaging. In one example, a method for the pre-screen procedure includes receiving data from a scanning assembly positioned away from an MRI scanner, identifying the implant based on a matching of the implant to an implant database, and displaying identification of the implant."

The patent was filed on Sept. 6, 2019, und...