ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,415, issued on July 15, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Method for marking an entry position for an injection apparatus in interventional mr imaging" was invented by Florian Maier (Buckenhof, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for marking an entry position for an injection apparatus on a surface of a patient positioned inside a patient receiving region of a magnetic resonance device. The method includes providing a virtual entry position, introducing a marking apparatus into the patient receiving region, acquiring time-resolved MR image data from the marking apparatus by the magnetic resonan...