US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on July 1 for "Portable handheld magnetic particle imaging" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,784, issued on July 1, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Portable handheld magnetic particle imaging" was invented by Zhi Wei Tay (Singapore) and Teck Hock Lee (Sg, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a portable magnetic particle imaging (MPI) device. The portable MPI device comprises a handheld probe and a processing unit. The handheld probe comprises a main housing a first sensor coil, a second sensor coil, a transmitter coil arranged between the first and second sensor coils, and an excitation priming frame housing magnetic component and the processing unit comp...