US Patent Issued to GE Precision Healthcare on Sept. 2 for "System and method for measuring eddy currents with long time constants using a pseudo-continuous acquisition" (Wisconsin, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,337, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for measuring eddy currents with long time constants using a pseudo-continuous acquisition" was invented by Richard Scott Hinks (Sandia Park, N.M.), Andreas Ebel (Waukesha, Wis.) and Hua Li (Sussex, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for measuring eddy currents with long time constants includes initiating, via a processor, a calibration scan of a phantom utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner. The system and the method also include utilizing, via the processor, a train of gradient echo sequenc...