ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,567, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for operating an imaging modality of a magnetic resonance system, and magnetic resonance system" was invented by Stephan Biber (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an imaging modality of a magnetic resonance system and magnetic resonance system. At least one item of environmental information in an environment of the imaging modality is detected with at least one detection unit (of the magnetic resonance system. A potential start time is defined depending on the at least one detected item of environmental i...