ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,698, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ivy Biomedical Systems Inc. (Branford, Conn.).

"Wireless gating system for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Joseph Lane (Branford, Conn.) and Ryan Mcguire (Orange, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system uses magnetic fields and radio frequency waves to generate anatomical images of a biological organism, such as a human body, for example. The example MRI system can implement a prospective gating technique, such as cardiac gating and/or respiratory gating, to provide some examples, to improve the image quality of the anatomical images...