US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Sept. 30 for "Devices and methods for assessment of fluid distribution in muscle tissue" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,795, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Devices and methods for assessment of fluid distribution in muscle tissue" was invented by Michael J Cima (Winchester, Mass.), Ashvin Bashyam (Allston, Mass.) and Christopher Frangieh (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods are provided for non-invasive sensing of tissue fluid distribution in a patient. The device includes one or more magnets configured to provide a static magnetic field source; one or more RF transmitter coils connected to a pulse sequence generator which are configured to apply a varying...