US Patent Issued to Livivos on July 21 for "Magnet arrangement for producing a field suitable for NMR in a concave region" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,959, issued on July 21, was assigned to Livivos Inc. (San Diego).

"Magnet arrangement for producing a field suitable for NMR in a concave region" was invented by Robert R. Lown (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance ("NMR") apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system."

The patent was filed on Jan. 24, 2024, under App...