ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,503, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods of correcting effects of second-order concomitant fields in a magnetic resonance system with a second-order correction coil assembly" was invented by Seung-Kyun Lee (Cohoes, N.Y.), Afis Ajala (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance (MR) system for correcting concomitant field effects is provided. The MR system includes a gradient coil assembly including a plurality of gradient coils configured to apply at least one gradient field to a polarizing magnetic ...