ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,043, issued on March 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Magnetic resonance gradient system" was invented by Michael Mallett (Faringdon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gradient system for a magnetic resonance device, configured to, when arranged in use in the magnetic resonance device, generate a variable magnetic gradient field in a scanning region of the magnetic resonance device. The gradient system includes a first magnetic assembly configured to generate a first magnetic gradient field contribution to the magnetic gradient field. The first magnetic assembly includes one or more comp...