ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,162, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).
"MRI apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Imai (Nasushiobara, Japan), Takaya Mori (Nasushiobara, Japan), Yuto Ono (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Ryota Takei (Shioyaguntakanezawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, An MRI apparatus comprising: an RF coil that includes a plurality of coil elements and can be installed in an arbitrary orientation with either a front surface or back surface brought into contact with the object; a table on which the object is placed; and processing circuitry configured to acquire an MR "Magnetic Resonance" ...