US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Oct. 21 for "Thermally adaptive scan sequencing for computed tomography scanners" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,491, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Thermally adaptive scan sequencing for computed tomography scanners" was invented by Arka Datta (Waukegan, Ill.) and John M Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems/techniques that facilitate thermally adaptive scan sequencing for computed tomography scanners are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a set of scanning protocols performable by a computed tomography scanner. In various aspects, the system can further access a current thermal state of the computed tomography scanner. In various instances, the syste...