US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on July 29 for "Systems and methods for an integrated filter assembly with two carriages" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,869, issued on July 29, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for an integrated filter assembly with two carriages" was invented by Timothy Behlmer (Milwaukee), Brandon Smith (Waukesha, Wis.) and Changlyong Kim (Brookfield, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are provided for an integrated filter assembly including at least one bowtie filter and at least one beam hardening filter mounted on a carriage. In one embodiment, an imaging system may include a first carriage including at least one beam hardening filter and at least one bowtie filter, a second carriage ...