US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 22 for "System for detection of RF induced heating of a patient undergoing a MRI examination" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,409, issued on July 22, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System for detection of RF induced heating of a patient undergoing a MRI examination" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a system (10) for detection of Radio Frequency (RF) induced heating of a patient undergoing a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) examination. The system comprises a form (20); and a processing unit (30). The form is configured to be placed around at least a part of a patient undergoing a Magnetic Resonance Imaging "MRI" examination in an MRI scanner. ...