US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Dec. 2 for "Receive coil for MRI breast imaging" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,856, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Receive coil for MRI breast imaging" was invented by Christophor Napier (Tallmadge, Ohio), Errol Brissett (Cleveland), Dan DeLeon (Kent, Ohio) and Mark Richard (Solon, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MRI support structure for imaging a breast region of a patient, said support structure comprising: a housing including a top portion, a bottom portion, a left support portion, and a right support portion wherein the top portion, bottom portion, and left support portion define a left cup opening, and the top portion, bottom portion, and right support portion define a ri...