ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,087, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Patient positioning table" was invented by Berthold Baumann (Kastl, Germany) and Johannes Stock (Reuth bei Erbendorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each scissor frame of the patient positioning table has a first and a second scissor arm connected in an X-shaped arrangement to pivot about a common pivot axis via a lifting facility for vertically moving the positioning table. The lifting facility includes a roller arrangement configured to be moved by a traction device. The roller arrangement is arranged between, and guides, arm segments of t...