US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 3 for "Method for invalidating a local coil for an MRT system" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,990, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for invalidating a local coil for an MRT system" was invented by Stephan Biber (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniques for invalidating a local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) system. The techniques include carrying out a measurement with the local coil on the MRT system, changing a mechanical and/or an electrical property of the local coil and/or an item of information about the local coil in the MRT system to the extent that a number of measurements possible with this local coil is...