US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on April 8 for "System for and method of rapid peripheral nerve stimulation assessment of gradient coils" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,268,508, issued on April 8, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"System for and method of rapid peripheral nerve stimulation assessment of gradient coils" was invented by Mathias Davids (Cambridge, Mass.), Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Mass.) and Bastien Guerin (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assessing peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) for a coil geometry includes retrieving a PNS Huygens' P-matrix for a body model. The PNS Huygens' P-matrix is defined on a Huygens' surface enclosing the body model. The method further includes generating a coil specific PNS P-matrix for the coil geometry bas...