ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,880, issued on June 3, was assigned to Q Bio Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Maxwell parallel imaging" was invented by Matteo Alessandro Francavilla (San Mateo, Calif.), Jorge Fernandez Villena (Lisbon, Portugal), Stamatios Lefkimmiatis (Attiki, Greece), Athanasios Polymeridis (Salonika, Greece) and Doruk Tayli (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, a computer system may acquire magnetic resonance (MR) signals associated with a sample from a measurement device or memory. Then, the computer system may access a predetermined set of coil magnetic field basis vectors associated with a surface surrounding the s...