ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,030, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Magnetic resonance apparatus having a patient communication unit" was invented by Marcel Ruf (Langensendelbach, Germany) and Harald Karl (Furth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance apparatus having a magnet unit, a patient-receiving region that is at least in part surrounded by the magnet unit and is designed to receive a patient for a magnetic resonance examination, and a patient communication unit that includes a display unit having an e-paper display arranged within the patient-receiving region."
The patent was filed on ...