US Patent Issued to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment on Dec. 30 for "Method for vertically positioning examinee, appratus for vertically positioning examinee, and CT system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,968, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Method for vertically positioning examinee, appratus for vertically positioning examinee, and CT system" was invented by Kai Chen (Shanghai), Jing Lu (Shanghai) and Yi Tian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for vertically positioning an examinee may include obtaining a position of an examination table after placement of an examinee is completed; determining a measurement range that is corresponding to a to-be-examined organ and that is on the examination table; during movement of the examination table toward a scanner gantry, ...