US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Dec. 2 for "Wireless local coil array with low intermediate frequency" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,301, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Wireless local coil array with low intermediate frequency" was invented by Markus Vester (Nuremberg, Germany) and JianMin Wang (ShenZhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local coil array for a magnetic resonance tomography unit includes a plurality of antenna coils for receiving magnetic resonance signals from a patient, a first frequency converter for converting the magnetic resonance signals to a first intermediate frequency, and a plurality of transmission coils for transmitting intermediate frequency signals by inductive coupling. The magn...