US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on April 22 for "Multi-resonance broadband transmit/receive switches without tuning used in magnetic resonance imaging" (Saudi Arabia, Jordanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,078, issued on April 22, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Multi-resonance broadband transmit/receive switches without tuning used in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Gameel Saleh Mohammed Saleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ashraf Abuelhaija (Amman, Jordan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus that includes a multi-resonance transmit/receive (T/R) switch, one switch design having a top side and a bottom side of a microstripline based hybrid coupler, a first pin diode, a second pin diode, four vertical transmission lines and six horizontal tran...