ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,662, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic particle imaging device" was invented by Kota Nomura (Tokyo), Tetsuya Matsuda (Tokyo), Kazuki Yamauchi (Tokyo) and Masaomi Washino (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pair of first measurement coils is disposed so as to sandwich magnetic particles. A pair of second measurement coils is disposed so as to sandwich magnetic particles and the pair of first measurement coils. A pair of alternate-current magnetic field application coils is disposed so as to sandwich magnetic particles, the pair of first measurement coils, and the pair of second measure...