ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,841, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for computed tomography" was invented by Jean-Baptiste Thibault (Waukesha, Wis.), John Howard Londt (Waukesha, Wis.) and John Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for increasing a quality of computed tomography (CT) images. In one embodiment, a CT system comprises an X-ray tube and an X-ray controller including one or more processors having executable instructions stored in a non-transitory memory of the CT system that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to, during ...