ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,706, issued on May 19, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Preparing a magnetic resonance imaging method" was invented by Carmel Hayes (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for preparing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of an examination subject may include performing an adjustment prescan of the examination subject, where the adjustment prescan may be performed using a MRI process. The method may include determining adjusted physical parameter values of the MRI scan based on the adjustment prescan and specifying geometric parameter values of the MRI scan based on the adjustment prescan."

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