US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University, Kennedy Krieger Institute on Sept. 2 for "Magnetic resonance imaging of glycogen and other polysaccharides by magnetic coupling with water" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,333, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) and Kennedy Krieger Institute Inc. (Baltimore).

"Magnetic resonance imaging of glycogen and other polysaccharides by magnetic coupling with water" was invented by Peter van Zijl (Baltimore), Yang Zhou (Baltimore) and Nirbhay N. Yadav (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method for magnetic resonance imaging of polysaccharide molecules, that includes providing a magnetic field that is sufficiently homogeneous over an imaging volume, generating a spatial encoding in the magnetic field, and acquiring one or more water proton ...