ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,435, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Method for detection of a number of pilot tone signals, magnetic resonance apparatus, and computer program product" was invented by Peter Speier (Erlangen, Germany), Jan Bollenbeck (Eggolsheim, Germany) and Mario Bacher (Diepersdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detection of a number of pilot tone signals, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a computer program product are disclosed. The method includes receiving receive signals according to an MR sequence by an RF receive unit of an MR apparatus, wherein the receive signals i...