ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,476, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Mainz, Germany).

"Apparatus and method for investigating a sample by using nuclear magnetic resonance and a magnetoresistance sensor" was invented by Dmitry Budker (Mainz, Germany), Yinan Hu (Mainz, Germany), Roman Picazo-Frutos (Mainz, Germany), Arne Wickenbrock (Mainz, Germany), Lykourgos Bougas (Mainz, Germany), James Eills (Bristol, Great Britain) and Danila Barskiy (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus (100) and method for investigating a sample by using nuclear magnetic resonance, particularly zero-...