ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,712, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Sensor for detecting gradient-bounded interference to a magnetic resonance tomography system and method for operation" was invented by Rainer Schneider (Hochstadt, Germany), Jurgen Nistler (Erlangen, Germany), Razvan Lazar (Erlangen, Germany) and Stephan Biber (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance tomography system with a sensor for detecting spikes and with a gradient coil. Nuclear spins of an object under observation are excited by a magnetic alternating field of the magnetic resonance tomography system. A gradient...