ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,493, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Magnetic resonance receiver coil array with sensor node" was invented by Sotir Filipov Ouzounov (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Filips van Liere (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to the field of magnetic resonance (MR) receiver coil arrays (1), and in particular to a magnetic receiver coil array (1) with an additional sensor node (3). The sensor node (3) comprises a sensor (23) for gathering measurement data and a sensor signal acquisition circuit (25), wherein the sensor signal acquisition circuit (25) is co...