US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Feb. 4 for "Image recording facility for a medical imaging system, lifting column and module system for producing a lifting column" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,824, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Image recording facility for a medical imaging system, lifting column and module system for producing a lifting column" was invented by Wolfgang Neuber (Eschenbach I. D. Opf., Germany), Thomas Dippl (Pressath, Germany), Dieter Heinl (Erbendorf, Germany), Franz Fuetterer (Puechersreuth, Germany) and Thomas Kleber (Moosbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to an image recording facility for a medical imaging system including a radiation source configured to emit radiation; a patient table having a tabletop...