ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,044, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Xiaolei Guan (Shanghai), Zimeng Liu (Shanghai), Fangyan Hou (Shanghai), Wei Shi (Shanghai), Zhen Yang (Shanghai), Qingchang Chen (Shanghai), Chunyan Zhang (Shanghai) and Bin Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus is provided. The MR apparatus may include at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to obtain an operating state of the MR apparatus; and select, from two or more power supply devices, a power supply device fo...