US Patent Issued to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS on June 30 for "Head-neck coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,560, issued on June 30, was assigned to SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Head-neck coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications" was invented by Christoph Dickmann (Nuremberg, Germany), Martin Requardt (Nuremberg, Germany) and Hans Weber (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The coil arrangement comprises: a rigid base part with which the coil arrangement can be placed on a patient couch; an upper additional part including upper local coils, wherein the upper additional part is movable such that a spacing of the upper local coils from the facial, neck and upper chest area of the patient is adjustable...