US Patent Issued to WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS on Jan. 28 for "Apparatus and method for C-arm MRI with electropermanent magnets" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,078, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to WEINBERG MEDICAL PHYSICS INC. (North Bethesda, Md.).

"Apparatus and method for C-arm MRI with electropermanent magnets" was invented by Irving N. Weinberg (Chevy Chase, Md.) and Oleg Udalov (North Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for accessing and imaging at least one body part of interest may position a subject in an imaging system to partially encloses the subject and partially expose the subject, and access at least one body part of the subject that is exposed outside the imaging system for a procedure. The at least one exposed body part is positioned to be ...