ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,378, issued on June 10, was assigned to THE AEROSPACE Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Self-determined shot geometry for open-configuration portable x-ray computed tomography (CT)" was invented by Joseph T. Case (Hawthorne, Calif.) and Shant Kenderian (Pasadena, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for self-determination of shot geometry for use in open-configuration portable x-ray computed tomography (CT) includes inputting one or more x-ray shot images into a computing system. The method also include determining, by the computing system, one or more shot geometries from the one or more inputted x-ray shot images. The method f...