US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on Dec. 2 for "Portable medical imaging system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,866, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Portable medical imaging system and method" was invented by Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.), Robert Stevens (North Chelmsford, Mass.), Hisham Salem (Newton, Mass.), Yuan Cheng (Andover, Mass.) and David Cleary (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable medical imaging system and method, of which the system includes a movable station having a movable C-arm, an imaging signal transmitter attached to the movable C-arm, and an imaging sensor positioned generally opposite to the imaging signal transmitter and attached to the movable c-arm. ...