ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,874, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for adjusting a driving force for moving a patient table of a magnetic resonance apparatus" was invented by Stephan Nufer (Erlangen, Germany), Julia Nufer (Erlangen, Germany) and Christian Hetz (Bretzfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for adjusting a driving force for moving a patient table of a magnetic resonance apparatus, position-relevant and/or drive-relevant patient data is provided, a minimum required driving force is determined based on the provided position-relevant and/or drive-relevant patient data, the mini...