US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 25 for "Position determining method, method for actuating an x-ray device and medical system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,087, issued on March 25, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Position determining method, method for actuating an x-ray device and medical system" was invented by Christian Kaethner (Forchheim, Germany), Andreas Meyer (Bubenreuth, Germany) and Michael Wiets (Langensendelbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rapid and precise recording of a VOI is provided while monitoring a robot-assisted movement of a medical object through a hollow organ of a patient. For actuating an x-ray device that has a recording system, a user input for the recording of a recording region is accepted. A previously recorded t...