US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 23 for "Reducing and correcting magnetic field gradient deviations" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,491, issued on June 23, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Reducing and correcting magnetic field gradient deviations" was invented by Manuel Stich (Parkstein, Germany) and Philipp Puls (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for reducing and/or correcting deviations from a target gradient of a magnetic field gradient created by an MR system input data is provided for a trained function trained by a machine-learning algorithm, wherein the input data comprises information about the target gradient of the MR system. The trained function further creates output data with the aid of the in...