US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Nov. 3 for "Reconfigurable local coil, device for reconfiguring and method for operation" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,480, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Reconfigurable local coil, device for reconfiguring and method for operation" was invented by Stefan Popescu (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having a field control material for arrangement between a local coil and a patient and a local coil, a magnetic resonance tomography system having the local coil and a method for operating the magnetic resonance tomography system. The device has a control input and the field control material is configured to modify the spatial propagation of an electrical and/or magnetic alternating fi...