US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Fahd University on Nov. 11 for "1H transmit/receive switch for 3T and 7T magnetic resonance imaging" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,993, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Fahd University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"1H transmit/receive switch for 3T and 7T magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Gameel Saleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ashraf Abuelhaija (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmit/receive switch for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a 1H atomic nucleus at 3 T (tesla) and 7 T magnetic field strengths includes a first and second dielectric substrate and a first and a second microstripline hybrid coupler formed on the first and second dielectric substrates respectively. A first port and a second port are con...