ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,540, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Data-based estimation of operating behavior of an MR device" was invented by Sultan Haider (Erlangen, Germany) and Georg Gortler (Baiersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for computer-aided estimation of an operating behavior for an MR device having a set of device component. The method includes providing a memory with a set of digital models, wherein each digital model simulates the operating behavior of a respective component of the MR device, and wherein the digital models are interconnected in accordance with the structure a...