US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Nov. 11 for "Locating an error in a supply or signal line of a magnetic resonance system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,965, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Locating an error in a supply or signal line of a magnetic resonance system" was invented by Peter Vernickel (Hamburg, Germany) and Oliver Lips (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of magnetic resonance, and in particular to determining a location of an error in a supply or signal line. Due to the rugged environment for MR systems in hospitals supply or signal lines of MR systems are error prone. For serviceability and part replacement it is important to locate the error in the supply or signal li...