US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Sept. 9 for "Setting a position of a patient table or an object positioned on the patient table" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,873, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Setting a position of a patient table or an object positioned on the patient table" was invented by Thomas Beck (Dormitz, Germany) and Sven Helmecke (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus and a monitoring unit, wherein the MR apparatus includes: a scanner unit to acquire medical MR data; a patient receiving region surrounded at least in part by the scanner unit; a patient positioning apparatus having a patient table designed to be movable into the patient receiving region; a position acquisition unit t...