US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE on May 27 for "Collimators, imaging devices, and methods for tracking and calibrating x-ray focus positions" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,781, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Collimators, imaging devices, and methods for tracking and calibrating x-ray focus positions" was invented by Bing Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is provided. The imaging device includes an X-ray tube, a collimator, and a detector. The collimator includes an opening, wherein the collimator has a width in a first direction and a length in a second direction. The opening has an opening width in the width direction of the collimator, and an opening at at least one end of the collimator in the second direction ha...