US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on July 21 for "Magnetic resonance system with integrated pilot tone apparatus and method for the operation thereof" (German, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,597, issued on July 21, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Magnetic resonance system with integrated pilot tone apparatus and method for the operation thereof" was invented by Jan Bollenbeck (Eggolsheim, Germany), Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany) and Qiu Yi Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance system has a receiver designed to receive and evaluate a pilot tone signal and a magnetic resonance signal at the same time. The receiver additionally has a frequency-dependent attenuator to attenuate a received pilot tone signal relative to a received magnetic resonance signal."...