US Patent Issued to Quality Electrodynamics on Dec. 16 for "Multi-turn birdcage MRI coil and applications" (Pennsylvania, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,435, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Quality Electrodynamics LLC (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Multi-turn birdcage MRI coil and applications" was invented by Xiaoyu Yang (Indiana, Pa.), Matthew Finnerty (University Heights, Ohio), Tsinghua Zheng (Chesterland, Ohio) and Thomas Eastlake (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a multi-turn (MT) birdcage magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio-frequency (RF) coil. The MT birdcage MRI RF coil includes a first conductive ring, a second conductive ring, and a plurality of conductive rungs. Each of the plurality of conductive rungs incl...