US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 10 for "Sensing motion in MRI using RF intermodulation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,842, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Sensing motion in MRI using RF intermodulation" was invented by Shimon M. Lustig (Moraga, Calif.), Suma Mandayam Anand (Berkeley, Calif.) and Alan Dong (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of sensing motion in an MRI scanner includes transmitting at least two tones having different frequencies, using intermodulation to combine the two tones, transmitting the two tones as a combined signal during an MRI scan of a patient, receiving the combined signal using a receiver in the MRI scanner, demodulating the combined s...