US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on May 13 for "Method for monitoring absorption, magnetic resonance device and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,712, issued on May 13, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for monitoring absorption, magnetic resonance device and computer program product" was invented by Ralph Kimmlingen (Zirndorf, Germany) and Patrick Liebig (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for monitoring absorption of a transmitter output irradiated into a patient by a transmitter unit of a magnetic resonance device, absorption data is provided, which describes a patient-nonspecific, location-dependent absorption sensitivity of the transmitter output to be irradiated. The patient is positioned in an irradiation reg...