US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on June 3 for "X-ray lead marker detection system for x-ray imaging system" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,239, issued on June 3, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"X-ray lead marker detection system for x-ray imaging system" was invented by Gireesha Chinthamani Rao (Pewaukee, Wis.), Ravi Soni (San Ramon, Calif.), Poonam Dalal (Brookfield, Wis.), Chen Liu (Mountain View, Calif.), Dibyajyoti Pati (Dublin, Calif.) and Katelyn Nye (Glendale, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial intelligence (AI) lead marker detection system is employed either as a component of the X-ray imaging system or separately from the X-ray imaging system to scan post-exposure X-ray images to detect and insert various lead marke...