ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,305, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Apparatus and method to enable low power magnetic resonance patient positioning on edge devices" was invented by Abhishek Sharma (Cambridge, Mass.), Arun Innanje (Cambridge, Mass.), Ziyan Wu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power management apparatus for a workflow to enable low power MR patient positioning on edge devices is disclosed. The power management apparatus changes an operational mode of an edge device from a first power mode to a second power mode after a defined time-inter...