US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 8 for "Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of controlling superconducting magnet" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,168, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method of controlling superconducting magnet" was invented by Kazuto Nakabayashi (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Takehiro Shibuya (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a MRI apparatus determines a first time during which a subsidiary power supply is capable of supplying power to a cooling device based on a capacity of the subsidiary power supply when power outage of a main power supply occurs, and determines a second time needed to demagnetize a superconducting magnet based on an excitation curren...