Carestream continues innovation, earns 37 US patents in 2019

Carestream Health was awarded 37 new patents in 2019 by the US Patent and Trademark Office for advances in digital radiography, mobile imaging X-ray systems, and other healthcare technology areas. The company also received 38 patents in European and Asian countries last year, earning a total of 75 patents.
Patents earned by Carestream’s scientists and engineers in 2019 include: New medical image capture technologies related to long-length imaging using a single X-ray exposure for full spinal and extremity imaging; Mobile X-ray cart technology that enables bedside imaging in selectable modes: projection radiography, tomosynthesis and fluoroscopy; and technology advances in image quality delivered by Carestream’s growing portfolio of radiology imaging detectors with processing capabilities to calibrate and correct X-ray images in the detector before transmission.