US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Nov. 25 for "Intra-surgery imaging system" (New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,338, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Intra-surgery imaging system" was invented by Gautam Parthasarathy (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Ronald Andrew von Jako (Melrose, Mass.) and Ross Christopher Stalter (Harltand, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments discussed herein utilize a C-shaped imager to provide images with a minimal footprint, such as may be suitable in a surgical context. In addition the systems and methods described herein allow for suitable angular (i.e., azimuthal) scan coverage about the patient. To provide re...