ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,492, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"Cooling device" was invented by Yasunobu Shinden (Otawara, Japan), Teruo Hashimoto (Otawara, Japan), Toshikazu Shimmei (Nasushiobara, Japan), Shintaro Inoue (Nasushiobara, Japan), Kenichi Murata (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Hajime Tanaka (Kodaira, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a cooling device for cooling a constituent element housed in a housing of a unit subjected to an influence of a generated magnetic field includes a water cooling mechanism and at least one air cooling mechanism. The water cooling mechanism cool...