US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on Aug. 18 for "Permanent magnet assembly for magnetic resonance imaging with non-ferromagnetic frame" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,496, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Permanent magnet assembly for magnetic resonance imaging with non-ferromagnetic frame" was invented by Cedric Hugon (Guilford, Conn.) and Michael Stephen Poole (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for providing a B0 magnetic field for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the assembly comprising: a plurality of rods extending along a common longitudinal direction and positioned to form a bore extending along the common longitudinal direction, the plurality of rods including a first rod, the first rod comprising: ferromagn...