US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Nov. 11 for "Detent-free locking of an additional body relative to a base body" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,300, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Detent-free locking of an additional body relative to a base body" was invented by Michael Bauernfeind (Schwarzenbach, Germany), Moritz Weber (Nuremberg, Germany), Joern Wutz (Kemnath, Germany) and Michael Schweiger (Bayreuth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An additional body of an apparatus is mounted on a base body of the apparatus and is movable along a path. Arranged on the base body is a locking structure. Arranged on the additional body is a toothed element. The locking structure and toothed element interact to block movement of the a...