US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 14 for "Gradient coil unit with separately drivable conductor pattern pairs" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,114, issued on July 14, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Gradient coil unit with separately drivable conductor pattern pairs" was invented by Andreas Krug (Erlangen, Germany), Simon Bauer (Erlangen, Germany), Stefan Stocker (Erlangen, Germany) and Peter Dietz (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a gradient coil unit comprising a hollow cylindrical primary coil longitudinally surrounding a cylinder axis and designed to generate a magnetic field gradient in a first spatial direction, which primary coil comprises two primary conductor pattern pairs. Each primary conduc...