ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,867, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Tiltable couch board" was invented by Wolfgang Neuber (Eschenbach I. D. Opf., Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments of the present invention relates to a tilt module for a patient couch, having a first support unit, a second support unit and a linear drive system, wherein one of the first support unit and the second support unit is configured to fix the tilt module to a stand of the patient couch or to receive a couch board, wherein the second support unit is connected via a joint to the first support unit at a tilt...