US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on April 21 for "MRI induced nerve stimulation as means for communication with patient" (German, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,543, issued on April 21, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"MRI induced nerve stimulation as means for communication with patient" was invented by Steffen Weiss (Hamburg, Germany), Mark Thomas Johnson (Arendonk, Belgium), Gereon Vogtmeier (Aachen, Germany) and Christoph Gunther Leussler (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a device (10) for preparing a patient for examination in a medical magnetic resonance imaging environment. The device comprises: at least one stimulation unit (11), adapted to operate separately from a magnetic stimulation used in the medical mag...