ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,053, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for imaging device" was invented by Cuifang Li (Shanghai), Shihong Han (Shanghai) and Gongze Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for acquiring scan data. The system includes a processing device and an imaging device. The processing device is configured to generate a target protocol group corresponding to a plurality of target bed positions by adjusting, based on a reference image, at least one parameter of an initial protocol group. The target protocol group includes a target general protoc...