US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY on June 23 for "Self-tuning liquid metal RF coil and coil array for MRI" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,489, issued on June 23, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.).

"Self-tuning liquid metal RF coil and coil array for MRI" was invented by Elizaveta Motovilova (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Simone Angela Winkler (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single or multiple self-tuning coil element for an MR imaging system is provided. The element is flexible and stretchable and may conform to various body parts and patient sizes. The element may be worn by the patient during the MR imaging session. Each coil may have one or more interdigital capacitors formed of flexible conductive traces. The capacitance of the interdigital capac...