US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on March 17 for "Communication in a magnetic resonance imaging system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,403, issued on March 17, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Communication in a magnetic resonance imaging system" was invented by Philipp Hocht (Bavaria, Germany), Gilbert Yammine (Erlangen, Germany), Felix Wolf (Bubenreuth, Germany), Dieter Faust (Erlangen, Germany), Jens Guhring (Erlangen, Germany) and Stefan Schonwalder (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes an internet protocol (IP) communication system for communicating IP-based communication data, an audio/video output, and an audio/video source. The MRI system also includes an audi...