US Patent Issued to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS on May 13 for "Permanent current switch apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,713, issued on May 13, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Permanent current switch apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Toshiki Idemaru (Ako, Japan), Dai Yamashiro (Otawara, Japan) and Kazuto Nogami (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent current switch apparatus according to an embodiment is a permanent current switch apparatus electrically connected to a superconducting coil via a superconducting wire, the permanent current switch apparatus including a plurality of parallel structures with thermal permanent current switches connected in parallel, the...