ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,791, issued on July 7, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Electromagnetic shielding for magnetic resonance imaging methods and apparatus" was invented by Michael Stephen Poole (Guilford, Conn.), Cedric Hugon (Guilford, Conn.), Hadrien A. Dyvorne (New York), Laura Sacolick (Guilford, Conn.), William J. Mileski (Ledyard, Conn.), Jeremy Christopher Jordan (Cromwell, Conn.), Alan B. Katze Jr. (Oxford, Conn.), Jonathan M. Rothberg (Miami Beach, Fla.), Todd Rearick (Cheshire, Conn.) and Christopher Thomas McNulty (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some aspects, a portable magnetic resonan...