US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on May 6 for "Point-of-care magnetic resonance imaging system for lumbar puncture guidance" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,323, issued on May 6, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Point-of-care magnetic resonance imaging system for lumbar puncture guidance" was invented by Lawrence L. Wald (Cambridge, Mass.), Clarissa Zimmerman-Cooley (Boston) and Patrick C. McDaniel (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-sided magnet and magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") system are portable and lightweight, enabling use as a point-of care ("POC") MRI device. The portable MRI system includes a magnet assembly containing layers of magnet blocks, such as rare-earth magnet blocks. The magnet blocks are arranged in concentric rings in each layer,...