ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,082, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Scan sequencing in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a control system (126) for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100). The control system comprises a control module (250) configured to control the magnetic resonance imaging system to perform an examination comprising multiple scans. The control system further comprises a monitor module (252) configured to monitor a sleep state of a patient on the basis of sensor data received from a patient state sen...