ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,796, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Local coil and magnetic resonance device" was invented by Andreas Greiser (Erlangen, Germany), Miriam Keil (Erlangen, Germany), Jens Thone (Lauf an der Pegnitz, Germany), Hans Weber (Erlangen, Germany), Sebastian Dennert (Lonnerstadt, Germany), Titus Lanz (Wurzburg, Germany), Florian Odoj (Veitshochheim, Germany), Marco GeiBner (Estenfeld, Germany), Manuel Graf (Estenfeld, Germany), Marion Hellinger (Uttenreuth, Germany) and Jorg Rothard (Litzendorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A local coil for a magnetic resonance apparatus, including: ...