US Patent Issued to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE on Oct. 14 for "Method and system for creating a reference scout image for x-ray source current modulation" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,175, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Method and system for creating a reference scout image for x-ray source current modulation" was invented by Franco Rupcich (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Chelsey Amanda Lewis (Waukesha, Wis.) and Masatake Nukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system(s), a computer-implemented method(s) and/or computer executable instructions encoded on a computer readable medium(s) obtains, for a scan series for a subject that includes arms of the subject at different positions relative to the subject, a scout image for the subject, removing the arms of the subject fr...