ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,494, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Eiji Sato (Chiba, Japan) and Masayoshi Dohata (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes decoupling circuits respectively connected to receive coils, the decoupling circuits including a first FET and a second FET as changeover switches for switching each of the receive coils between a resonance state and a detuning state, and an FET switch controller that applies a drive voltage to gates of the first and second FETs and performs ON/OFF control. The magnetic resonance ...