US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 13 for "Apparatus for optimizing a sequence of magnetic resonance (MR) scans of a MR exam" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,372, issued on May 13, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Apparatus for optimizing a sequence of magnetic resonance (MR) scans of a MR exam" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for optimizing a sequence of Magnetic Resonance (MR) scans of an MR exam. The apparatus includes an input unit; a processing unit; and an output unit. The input unit is configured to receive information on a MR exam to be performed on a patient, the information includes details of individual MR scans; provide the information to the processing unit; receive information on t...