ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,917, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Magnetic resonance imaging system for the head region" was invented by Stephan Biber (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging system may include a scanning unit. The scanning unit may comprise a gantry which has a magnet system with a base field magnet and a patient opening, and a carrier unit which has a vertical translation mechanism which is set up to arrange the gantry in a predetermined height position. Part of the magnetic resonance imaging system may include a patient seat on which a patient can be posit...