ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,754, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Auto positioning of x-ray tube support with respect to detector" was invented by Sanjay Bharadwaj Pulijala (Pune, India), Sirosh Mullan (Pune, India) and Harshad Mahajan (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to medical imaging. In order to facilitate the alignment of an X-ray tube with respect to an X-ray detector, a positioning system (160) is provided for controlling an X-ray tube support system to align an X-ray tube with an X-ray detector. The positioning system comprises a radio frequency (RF) based l...