ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,534, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Changing the orientation of the X-ray emitter in order to vary the X-ray radiation" was invented by Joerg Freudenberger (Kalchreuth, Germany) and Philipp Bernhardt (Forchheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a method for generating X-ray radiation having an X-ray characteristic, the method comprising providing a first type of examination information and a second type of examination information for selection; receiving the selected type of examination information in a controller; selecting an X-ray e...