US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on May 6 for "Distributed data collection for large field of view positron emission tomography" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,389, issued on May 6, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Distributed data collection for large field of view positron emission tomography" was invented by Mahesh Raman Narayanaswamy (Milwaukee), Mark David Fries (Germantown, Wis.), Jorge Uribe (Waukesha, Wis.), Avichay Bdolah (Burgata, Israel) and Avihai Radi (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data collection architecture for a PET system includes a plurality of data collection boards, wherein each data collection board is coupled to a respective gantry segment of the PET system. The PET system includes a modular gantry having a...