US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 15 for "Energy harvesting decoupler for an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,187, issued on July 15, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Energy harvesting decoupler for an magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system" was invented by Aasrith Ganti (Gainsville, Fla.), Tracy Allyn Wynn (Gainsville, Fla.), Alan Leroy Holland (Gainsville, Fla.) and George randall Duensing (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (10) includes: a radiofrequency (RF) coil (18); a detune circuit (38) operatively coupled to the RF coil, wherein the detune circuit includes a decoupling inductor (40) configured as a transmitter (TX) inductor; and a harvester (44) coupled to the decoupling...