ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,243, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to OTTO-VON-GUERICKE-UNIVERSITAT MAGDEBURG (Madgeburg, Germany).
"Computer-assisted tomography system" was invented by Georg Rose (Magdeburg, Germany), Thomas Hoffman (Magdeburg, Germany), Mathias Leopold (Magdeburg, Germany), Oliver GroBer (Magdeburg, Germany) and Maciej Pech (Magdeburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-assisted tomography (CT) system having the following features: a) at least one X-ray source, b) at least one patient couch for supporting a patient, c) at least one collimator in the ray path of the X-rays from the X-ray source through the...