US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on April 15 for "Method for determining a trajectory representing an inserting of a patient into an MR scanner" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,566, issued on April 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for determining a trajectory representing an inserting of a patient into an MR scanner" was invented by Uvo Holscher (Erlangen, Germany), George William Ferguson (Erlangen, Germany) and Felix Horn (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trajectory is determined for inserting a patient into an MR scanner. An avatar representing specific body dimensions is provided. The avatar includes location information relating to an implant. A spatial magnetic field gradient data set relating to the scanner is provided. An avatar pose at a st...