US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 15 for "Mobile medical device including a LiDAR sensor and a method for controlling such a mobile medical device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,572, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Mobile medical device including a LiDAR sensor and a method for controlling such a mobile medical device" was invented by Ingo Hollenborg (Bayreuth, Germany), Martin Ossa Kafentzis (Heroldsberg, Germany), Markus Weiten (Nuremberg, Germany) and Alexander Gemmel (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for the automatic control of a drivable, mobile medical device having a collision control system that has at least one LiDAR sensor. The method includes: locomotion of the device at a first speed, periodic joint scanning o...