US Patent Issued to Preoperative Performance on July 1 for "Apparatus and method for representing organized tissue and constructing configurable phantoms of same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,792, issued on July 1, was assigned to Preoperative Performance Inc. (Toronto).

"Apparatus and method for representing organized tissue and constructing configurable phantoms of same" was invented by Fergal Kerins (Toronto) and Murugathas Yuwaraj (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Components and construction methods are described for constructing a wide variety of configurable phantoms for use in MR imaging. These phantoms generally comprise an outer housing; at least one support plate disposed within the outer housing and having a plurality of locations for selectively receiving at least one element allowing for configur...