US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on July 21 for "Flexible magnetic resonance (MR) coil array using electrical zipper contacts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,596, issued on July 21, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Flexible magnetic resonance (MR) coil array using electrical zipper contacts" was invented by Christoph Gunther Leussler (Hamburg, Germany), Oliver Lips (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Vernickel (Hamburg, Germany), Peter Caesar Mazurkewitz (Hamburg, Germany), Christian Findeklee (Norderstedt, Germany), Josef Scholz (Halstenbek, Germany) and Ingo Schmale (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance (MR) coil construction system includes MR coil sheets (20) comprising electrically conductive MR coil elements or MR coil element...