US Patent Issued to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University on May 12 for "Hybrid coupler for magnetic resonance imaging" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,204, issued on May 12, was assigned to Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

"Hybrid coupler for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Gameel Saleh (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ashraf Abuelhaija (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmit/receive switch for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a 1H atomic nucleus at 3T (tesla) and 7T magnetic field strengths includes a first and second dielectric substrate and a first and a second microstripline hybrid coupler formed on the first and second dielectric substrates respectively. A first port and a second port are connected to a first juncti...