ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,545, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Mechanical gradient magnetic field generator" was invented by Bernhard Gleich (Hamburg, Germany), George Randall Duensing (Hamburg, Germany), Johannes Adrianus Overweg (Uelzen, Germany), Peter Ulrich Bornert (Hamburg, Germany) and Jochen Keupp (Rosengarten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a mechanical gradient magnetic field generator (100, 500, 1600, 1700, 2000, 2112) comprising a field generating element (102) comprising at least one generator layer (104). Each of the at least one generator layer comprises: a stati...