US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 15 for "Acquisition of data of an examination object by means of magnetic resonance with improved time management" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,189, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Acquisition of data of an examination object by means of magnetic resonance with improved time management" was invented by Gregor Koerzdoerfer (Erlangen, Germany), Mathias Nittka (Baiersdorf, Germany) and Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for acquiring data of an examination object in at least two slices by means of a pulse sequence. Time intervals between excitations of neighboring slices and associated minimum intervals are determined. From these, time intervals to be adapted between excitation...