ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,840, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Systems and methods for image scanning" was invented by Lingzhi Hu (Houston), Yiran Li (Houston) and Xishan Sun (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a system for image scanning. The method may include: obtaining image data of a subject, the image data being acquired by a scanning device scanning the subject during a time period; determining, based on the image data, a motion state of the subject in a motion cycle; obtaining a physiological signal of the subject in the motion ...