ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,089, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Yutaka Machii (Nasushiobara, Japan), Naoyuki Furudate (Otawara, Japan) and Motohiro Miura (Yaita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to predict, based on an imaging sequence of magnetic resonance imaging and a relationship between a driving frequency of a gradient field coil and one of a magnet internal pressure and a magnet temperature of a static field magnet,...