US Patent Issued to ESAOTE on March 31 for "Method for producing planar gradient coils for MRI systems, gradient coils produced by the said method and MRI system provided with the said gradient coils" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,027, issued on March 31, was assigned to ESAOTE S.p.A. (Genoa, Italy).

"Method for producing planar gradient coils for MRI systems, gradient coils produced by the said method and MRI system provided with the said gradient coils" was invented by Vincenzo Punzo (San Giorgio a Cremano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing planar gradient coils for MRI systems includes defining a planar surface along which one continuous current wire extends along a path for generating a gradient field along a spatial direction; defining the path of the continuous current wire as a spiral path of a single continuous wire filament;...