ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,274, issued on April 29, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for generating calibration images for couch position calibration" was invented by Hongcheng Yang (Shanghai), Supratik Bose (Houston), Xuan Wu (Shanghai) and Jonathan Maltz (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and method for couch position calibration. The method may include obtaining one or more first images of a couch at one or more first locations in a first device, each of the one or more first images corresponding to one of the one or more first locations, wherein the cou...