US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 14 for "Method for operation of a docking arrangement and docking arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,179, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for operation of a docking arrangement and docking arrangement" was invented by Verena Schmidt (Erbendorf, Germany), Andreas Deinlein (Bayreuth, Germany), Matthias Muller (Bamberg, Germany), Gunther Gambke (Weidenberg, Germany), Rolf Schmidt (Bayern, Germany), Josef Zeidler (Marktredwitz, Germany), Patrik Schwingenschlogl (Furth, Germany) and Thorsten Gecks (Weidenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operation of a docking arrangement, position information is determined that describes a position of the patient table, ...