US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on May 6 for "Radio frequency receiver with detection of a malfunction of a detune circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,490, issued on May 6, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Radio frequency receiver with detection of a malfunction of a detune circuit" was invented by Christian Findeklee (Norderstedt, Germany), Christopher Gunther Leussler (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Caesar Mazurkewitz (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Vernickel (Hamburg, Germany), Ingo Schmale (Hamburg, Germany) and Oliver Lips (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a radio frequency (RF) receiver system a solution for a safe operation of the radio frequency (RF) receiver system in magnetic resonance imaging shall be ensured. This is achieved by...