ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,923, issued on May 5, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Radio frequency coil with T-shaped connector between electrical conductors and radio frequency shield" was invented by Wouter Carel Marinus Numan (Best, Netherlands), Eerke Holle (Westerhoven, Netherlands) and Aleksei Dubok (Best, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency (RF) coil comprises a lay-out of electrical conductors including several axial rung 11s and several circumferential rings (12), in which at least one of the rung 11s is coupled with at least one of the rings by a T-shaped connector. The T-shaped connector inclu...