US Patent Issued to General Electric on Feb. 11 for "Systems and methods for controlling motion of detectors having moving detector heads" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,271, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"Systems and methods for controlling motion of detectors having moving detector heads" was invented by Jean-Paul Bouhnik (Zichron Yaacov, Israel) and Yaron Hefetz (Kibbutz Alonim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling motion of detectors having moving detector heads are provided. One system includes a gantry and a plurality of detector units mounted to the gantry, wherein the plurality of detector units are individually movable including translational movement and rotational movement. The system further includes a con...