ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,224, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Shanghai Medical Equipment Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Automated disinfection system for CT patient table" was invented by Wei Wang (Shanghai), Min Sun (Shanghai), Hong De Mu (Shanghai), Jie Qing Liu (Shanghai), Chang Qing Teng (Shanghai) and Yi Zhi Ma (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to an automated disinfection system for a CT patient table, where the automated disinfection system for a CT patient table includes: a disinfection mechanism disposed above the CT patient table; a detection mechanism, disposed on the disinfection mechanism and configured to detect ...