US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 7 for "Laser-based alignment assistance apparatus, laser-based alignment assistance system, and an X-ray imaging system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,712, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Laser-based alignment assistance apparatus, laser-based alignment assistance system, and an X-ray imaging system" was invented by Alois Regensburger (Poxdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser-based alignment assistance apparatus used to assist with alignment of an instrument for puncturing a subject, which may be used for an X-ray imaging system, includes a first line laser to produce a first laser beam in a first laser plane. The first laser beam is configured to produce a first laser line on a first surface line in a first sectional p...