ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,282, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Cavity of medical device and medical system including the medical device" was invented by Xiaobin Li (Shanghai), Jianning Zhang (Shanghai), Yifeng Wang (Shanghai), Jian Zhang (Shanghai) and Wei Qi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a cavity of a medical device. The cavity may include a bore and an accommodating cavity configured to provide an accommodating space for at least a portion of a couch in a radial direction of the bore. The accommodating cavity may be disposed on an inner wall of the bore ...