US Patent Issued to Quality Electrodynamics on Aug. 26 for "Musculoskeletal RF surface coil for MRI" (Ohio, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,242, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Quality Electrodynamics LLC (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Musculoskeletal RF surface coil for MRI" was invented by David Michael Berendt (Aurora, Ohio), Labros Petropoulos (Chardon, Ohio), Xiaoyu Yang (Indiana, Pa.) and Tsinghua Zheng (Chesterland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a radio frequency (RF) surface coil for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The RF surface coil includes a rigid lower member, at least one flexible upper member mechanically coupled to the rigid lower member, and one or more RF coil elements housed by the ...