ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,003, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for monitoring of a patient undergoing a magnetic resonance image scan" was invented by Thomas Erik Amthor (Hamburg, Germany), Sanne Nauts (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Christopher Gunther Leussler (Hamburg, Germany), Joanne Henriette Desiree Monique Westerink (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Peter Caesar Mazurkewitz (Hamburg, Germany), Privender Kaur Saini (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Raymond Van Ee (Geldrop, Netherlands) and Edwin Heijman (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for monitoring patients undergoing a Mag...