US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on Dec. 23 for "B0 magnet methods and apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging system" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,487, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"B0 magnet methods and apparatus for a magnetic resonance imaging system" was invented by Michael Stephen Poole (Guilford, Conn.), Cedric Hugon (Guilford, Conn.) and Christopher Thomas McNulty (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing a B0 magnetic field for a magnetic resonance imaging system. The apparatus includes at least one first B0 magnet configured to produce a first magnetic field to contribute to the B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system, the at least one first B0 magnet comprising a fi...