ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,280, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).
"Impedance tuner, magnetic resonance system, transmission apparatus, and transmission method" was invented by Jianye Ning (Beijing), Xin Xie (Beijing), Yu Liu (Beijing), Chunlai Xiao (Beijing), Sheng Tong (Beijing), Dongliang Yang (Beijing) and Kai Wang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impedance tuner in a magnetic resonance system include at least one of an amplitude tuning circuit and a phase tuning circuit. The amplitude tuning circuit includes M serially-connected amplitude tuners. Each amplitude tuner includes at least one microwave ...