US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Aug. 26 for "Local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system and a magnetic resonance tomography system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,240, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system and a magnetic resonance tomography system" was invented by Andreas Fackelmeier (Thalmassing, Germany), Stephan Zink (Bayern, Germany), Klaus Huber (Effeltrich, Germany) and Robert Rehner (Neunkirchen am Brand, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system is provided. The local coil has a plate-shaped local coil body with a main extension plane, and an electronic apparatus within the local coil body. A wireless local coil generates waste heat. Th...