US Patent Issued to Hyperfine Operations on Feb. 17 for "Ferromagnetic frame for magnetic resonance imaging" (Connecticut, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,968, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Ferromagnetic frame for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Cedric Hugon (Guilford, Conn.), Hadrien A. Dyvorne (New York) and Michael Stephen Poole (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 permanent B0 magnet to contribute a magnetic field to the B0 magnetic field for the MRI system and a ferromagnetic frame configured to capture and direct at least some of the magnetic field generated by the B0 magnet. The ferro...