US Patent Issued to Globus Medical on May 13 for "Increased cone beam computed tomography volume length without requiring stitching or longitudinal c-arm movement" (Arizona, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,765, issued on May 13, was assigned to Globus Medical Inc. (Audubon, Pa.).

"Increased cone beam computed tomography volume length without requiring stitching or longitudinal c-arm movement" was invented by Neil R. Crawford (Chandler, Ariz.) and Norbert Johnson (North Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical imaging system includes a movable station having a C-arm, a collector, an X-ray beam emitter, and a controller. The collector is attached to a first end of the C-arm. The X-ray beam emitter faces the collector to emit an X-ray beam in a direction of the collector and is attached to a second end of the C-arm. The con...