US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on Oct. 14 for "Computed tomography device and method for executing translation movements of gantry parts of a computed tomography device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,177, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Computed tomography device and method for executing translation movements of gantry parts of a computed tomography device" was invented by Christoph Eichner (Erlangen, Germany), Aurel Jensch (Eggolsheim, Germany) and Viktor Lowen (Sankt Augustin, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more example embodiments relates to a computed tomography device, having a gantry with a first gantry part, a second gantry part and a third gantry part, wherein the first gantry part includes a rotor with a projection data acquisition system and via a first li...