US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on June 10 for "Methods and apparatus for patient positioning in magnetic resonance imaging" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,656, issued on June 10, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Methods and apparatus for patient positioning in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Anne Michele Nelson (Guilford, Conn.), Christopher Thomas McNulty (Guilford, Conn.), Jeremy Christopher Jordan (Cromwell, Conn.), Michael Stephen Poole (Guilford, Conn.) and Gang Chen (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some aspects, a magnetic resonance imaging system capable of imaging a patient is provided. The magnetic resonance imaging system comprising at least one B0 magnet to produce a magnetic field to contribute to a B0 mag...