ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,880, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Techniques for dynamic control of a magnetic resonance imaging system" was invented by Laura Sacolick (Guilford, Conn.), Jonathan Lowthert (Stamford, Conn.), Jeremy Christopher Jordan (Cromwell, Conn.) and Hadrien A. Dyvorne (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for controlling components of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system with a single controller, such as a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), by dynamically instructing the controller to issue commands to the components using a processor coupled to the control...