US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthcare on Aug. 5 for "Thermal bus structure for a magnetic resonance imaging device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,435, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Siemens Healthcare Ltd. (Camberley, Great Britain).

"Thermal bus structure for a magnetic resonance imaging device" was invented by Adrian Mark Thomas (Bicester, Great Britain), Simon Chorley (Oxford, Great Britain) and Nicholas Aley (Maldon/Essex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a magnetic resonance imaging device comprising a main magnet, a gradient system including at least one gradient coil, a thermal bus structure, a shield structure arranged between the gradient system and the main magnet and a cryocooler including a cold head, wherein the shield struc...