ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,244, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Phase-coherent read-out of MRI sensor nodes" was invented by Filips Van Liere (Best, Netherlands), Cumhur Erdin (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Sotir Filipov Ouzounov (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to phase-coherent read-out of sensor nodes (3) of a magnetic resonance imaging system (1) with a digital serial communication network (2). According to the invention, the network (2) comprises multiple sensor nodes (3) for detecting a radio frequency signal from a patient who is under examination by the mag...