US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 10 for "Method and system for detecting movement of at least one part of a subject" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,686, issued on June 10, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method and system for detecting movement of at least one part of a subject" was invented by Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany) and Patrick Liebig (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Movement detection of at least one part of a subject located inside a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device is provided. A method includes performing an MR scan by executing a programmable MR sequence protocol. The sequence protocol includes MR excitation pulses to be transmitted via a parallel transmit system and receive time windows for receiving magneti...