ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,882, issued on July 1, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Automatic collimator installation systems and methods" was invented by Beien Wang (Shanghai) and Li Fang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to automatic collimator installation systems and methods. An automatic collimator installation method may include obtaining an installation instruction for installing a target collimator into a medical scanner; identifying, from a plurality of collimators stored in a collimator storage device, the target collimator based on the installation instruction; using a ca...