US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 3 for "Cleaning unit and a medical imaging apparatus with a cleaning unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,818, issued on June 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Cleaning unit and a medical imaging apparatus with a cleaning unit" was invented by Thomas Beck (Dormitz, Germany), Florian Meise (Hausen, Germany), Stefanie Gugel-Wild (Langensendelbach, Germany), Tobias Kotulla (Stuttgart, Germany) and Martin Seifert (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cleaning unit for cleaning a housing of a medical imaging apparatus surrounding a patient receiving area, including at least one cleaning element, wherein the at least one cleaning element has an annular carrier structure, and a diameter of the cleani...