ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,764, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Repositioning method" was invented by Christoph Gunther Leussler (Hamburg, Germany), Jan Hendrik Wuelbern (Hamburg, Germany), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium) and Rajendra Singh Sisodia (Bkopal, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to patient positioning. In order to improve patient positioning during a scan, an autonomous motion positioner is proposed using a critical range, which may correspond to maximum corrections achievable by the scanner hardware and the maximum tolerable image distortions. The critica...