US Patent Issued to Canon Medical Systems on Aug. 5 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and imaging management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,437, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and imaging management method" was invented by Hitoshi Kanazawa (Utsunomiya, Japan), Seiji Nozaki (Otawara, Japan) and Takehiro Shibuya (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an allowable amount of heat input to a superconducting magnet, the allowable amount being allocated to each of a plurality of imagings scheduled during a target period. The process...