ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,779, issued on May 27, was assigned to RAYCAN Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou) (Jiangsu, China).

"Method and device of correction of ring artifact in CT image and computer program medium" was invented by Ang Li (Suzhou Jiangsu, China), Qingguo Xie (Suzhou Jiangsu, China) and Peng Xiao (Suzhou Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the invention is a method and a device of Correction of a ring artifact in a CT image and a computer program medium. The method of correction comprises: pre-processing original detection data; marking a bad detector according to data in the pre-processed original sinogram; acquiring a replaci...