US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 11 for "Establishing permitted gradient intensities to prevent overloading of a magnetic resonance (MR) system gradient unit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,044, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Establishing permitted gradient intensities to prevent overloading of a magnetic resonance (MR) system gradient unit" was invented by Dominik Paul (Bubenreuth, Germany), Mario Zeller (Erlangen, Germany) and Flavio Carinci (Wurzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Permitted gradient intensities are established to prevent an overloading of a gradient unit of a magnetic resonance system during a recording, with the magnetic resonance system, of scan data from an examination object situated in a scan volume of said magnetic resonance system."...