US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on May 20 for "System and method for imaging a subject" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,315, issued on May 20, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"System and method for imaging a subject" was invented by James A. Wear (Madison, Wis.), Adam Manders (Madison, Wis.) and Mehadi Hassan (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a medical imaging system having an X-ray source, a detector and a processing system. The X-ray source is collimated to produce a diverging beam of radiation and transmits X-rays through an object. The detector includes detector pixels arranged in at least one row and is operative to receive the X-ray energy of the X-rays after having pass...