US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Jan. 13 for "Determining a position of a treatment instrument to perform a treatment on an object" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,468, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Determining a position of a treatment instrument to perform a treatment on an object" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany) and Daniel Ploss (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray device is provided that includes: an X-ray source configured to provide the X-ray radiation; an X-ray detection unit configured to detect secondary X-ray radiation at least partially transmitted through the object and/or at least partially dispersed by the object, and to provide at least one detector signal as a function of the detected...