US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Nov. 18 for "Pulsed magnetic particle imaging systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,423, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Pulsed magnetic particle imaging systems and methods" was invented by Steven M. Conolly (Palo Alto, Calif.), Patrick W. Goodwill (San Francisco), Daniel Hensley (Berkeley, Calif.), Zhi Wei Tay (Berkeley, Calif.) and Bo Zheng (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulsed magnetic particle imaging system includes a magnetic field generating system that includes at least one magnet, the magnetic field generating system providing a spatially structured magnetic field within an observation region of the magnetic particle ima...