US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 16 for "Respiratory-state resolved magnetic resonance imaging" (Dutch, Finnish, Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,434, issued on June 16, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Respiratory-state resolved magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Gabriele Beck (Venlo, Netherlands), Niklas Hietala (Vantaa, Finland), Jonna Falk (Vantaa, Finland), Marinus Johan Kruiskamp (Zaltbommel, Netherlands), Guruprasad Krishnamoorthy (Rochester, N.Y.), Shashank Sathyanarayana Hegde (Bangalore, India) and Chennakeshava Krishna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 400) comprising: a magnetic resonance imaging system (102) configured for providing a respiratory signal. The respi...