ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,855, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Imaging systems and methods" was invented by Biao Sun (Shanghai), Junchao Sun (Shanghai), Xunsan Tao (Shanghai), Weiran Zhuang (Shanghai) and Qianqian Yu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automated scan preparation and real-time monitoring/adjustment in medical imaging. The automated scan preparation may include positioning a target subject to be scanned by a medical imaging device, determining a rotation scheme of the medical imaging device, targeting a scan region of the tar...