ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,569, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"MRI apparatus and RF amplifier" was invented by Hisanori Suzuki (Otawara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus comprising: an RF coil configured to transmit an RF signal to an object; an RF amplifier configured to output the RF signal to a load including at least the RF coil and the object, wherein the RF amplifier comprises: an RF amplification circuit configured to amplify an inputted RF signal; and control circuitry configured to acquire load impedance information of the load in a first scan, determine compensation data for compensatin...