US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on April 22 for "User interface for X-ray tube-detector alignment" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,900, issued on April 22, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"User interface for X-ray tube-detector alignment" was invented by Roger Steadman Booker (Aachen, Germany), Walter Ruetten (Linnich, Germany) and Matthias Simon (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System (SYS) for supporting X-ray imaging and related methods. The system (SYS) comprises a machine learning module (MLM), a logic (LG) configured to compute output correction information for adjusting an imaging geometry of an X-ray imaging apparatus to achieve a target imaging geometry. A modulator (MOD,L-MOD, H-MOD, S-MOD) is the system...