US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Oct. 6 for "MRI system, in particular a method and system for generating a cardiac trigger signal" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,675, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"MRI system, in particular a method and system for generating a cardiac trigger signal" was invented by Mark Josephus Henricus Van Gastel (Tilburg, Netherlands), Willem Verkruijsse (Veldhoven, Netherlands), Daniel Wirtz (Hamburg, Germany), Christoph Gunther Leussler (Hamburg, Germany), Maria Estrella Mena Benito (Eindhvoven, Netherlands) and Julien Thomas Senegas (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system provides a trigger signal for controlling the operation of a scanner. A laser speckle vibrometry system is used for non-contact ...