US Patent Issued to NVision Imaging Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for generation of hyperpolarized materials" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,994, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NVision Imaging Technologies GmbH (Ulm, Germany).

"Systems and methods for generation of hyperpolarized materials" was invented by Ilai Schwartz (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Anna Parker (Ulm, Germany), Stephan Knecht (Ulm, Germany), Tim Eichhorn (Blaustein, Germany) and John Blanchard (Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for increasing a nuclear spin polarization of a target compound. In accordance with such systems and methods, a first non-thermal equilibrium nuclear spin polarization can be imparted to at least one source atom of a source compound, the source ...