ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,163, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Magnetic resonance tomography system and method for operating a magnetic resonance tomography system" was invented by Dieter Ritter (Furth, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a magnetic resonance tomography system in which the field generation unit can be replaced by a digital emulation. Activation signals of a conventional system can be provided to this digital emulation. The digital emulation of the field generation unit outputs output signals that correspond to output signals of a hardware-based field generat...