US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Oct. 21 for "Determining a heating effect of a MRI sequence on a diagnostic modality due to the temperature variations and method of predicting and compensating the variations" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,491, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Determining a heating effect of a MRI sequence on a diagnostic modality due to the temperature variations and method of predicting and compensating the variations" was invented by Ludwig Eberler (Neumarkt, Germany), Ralf Ladebeck (Erlangen, Germany), Philipp Hoecht (Lauf, Germany), Sanghee Cho (Knoxville, Tenn.), Robert A. Mintzer (Knoxville, Tenn.), Nan Zhang (Knoxville, Tenn.), Johannes Breuer (Forchheim, Germany) and Martin Judenhofer (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for determining a heating effect of an imaging sequ...