US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 29 for "Measurement position error determination in a magnetic resonance device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,596, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Measurement position error determination in a magnetic resonance device" was invented by Johann Sukkau (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking the functionality of an MR sensor within a local coil arrangement, the method including: acquiring at a first couch position a first measurement value from the magnetic field sensor outside the bore at the first measurement position of the local coil arrangement, and determining the first position information; acquiring at a second couch position a second measurement val...