US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on June 10 for "Gantry drive with integral power transmission" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,052, issued on June 10, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Gantry drive with integral power transmission" was invented by Thomas Weidinger (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gantry drive includes a multiphase stator, a multiphase rotor, a tunnel-shaped cavity configured to receive a patient, and a controller. The multiphase rotor spatially surrounds the cavity. The multiphase stator and the multiphase rotor form a multiphase motor configured to produce a rotating-field power. A first portion of the rotating-field power provides a mechanical drive power to produce a rotational movement of t...