ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,236, issued on June 3, was assigned to Pulmera Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Medical imaging systems and associated devices and methods" was invented by Bryan I. Hartley (Nashville, Tenn.), Rene Vargas-Voracek (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ke Li (Middleton, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for medical imaging are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for imaging an anatomic region includes receiving, from a detector carried by an imaging arm of an x-ray imaging apparatus, a plurality of images of the anatomic region. The images can be obtained during manual rotation of the imaging arm. The imaging ...