ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,541, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Measurement of a gradient field in an MRT system" was invented by Michael Kohler (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for measuring a gradient field in a magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) system, a first slice is excited by a first radio frequency (RF) pulse being emitted and by a first slice selection gradient being switched at least partly at the same time as the first RF pulse. A second slice is excited by a second RF pulse being emitted and by a second slice selection gradient being switched at least partly at the ...