ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,981, issued on March 24, was assigned to JEOL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Inductive tuning with a sliding band capacitor in a low temperature nuclear magnetic resonance probe and methods of use" was invented by Anthony Ting Ann Siaw (Rowley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments of the invention, a cooled-NMR probe can utilize a non-tapered sliding band capacitor which can be moved relative to the inner conducting skirt of a parent coil to adjust the inductance of the parent coil and thereby the frequency of the parent coil to allow the parent coil to detect the resonance of at a nucleus without requiring leads between the ...