US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 30 for "System and method for a LIDAR guided patient positioning apparatus for a computed tomography system" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,841, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for a LIDAR guided patient positioning apparatus for a computed tomography system" was invented by Arka Datta (Pewaukee, Wis.), Brian Edward Nett (Wauwatosa, Wis.), Chelsey Amanda Lewis (Waukesha, Wis.) and John Moore Boudry (Waukesha, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving data acquired with a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) scanning system physically coupled to a computed tomography (CT) imaging system of a subject to be imaged disposed on a cradle of a table, wherein the table is configured to mo...