US Patent Issued to Muffin, Cook Medical Technologies on May 26 for "MRI compatible interventional medical devices and related methods" (Indiana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,118, issued on May 26, was assigned to Muffin Inc. (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Cook Medical Technologies LLC (Bloomington, Ind.).

"MRI compatible interventional medical devices and related methods" was invented by Ram H. Paul (Bloomington, Ind.), Sean D. Chambers (Bloomington, Ind.), David Gross (Lafayette, Ind.), Neal Fearnot (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jesse Roll (West Lafayette, Ind.), Joshua F. Krieger (Topsfield, Mass.) and Carl A. Cook (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to methods of imaging a portion of a body vessel using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), methods of performing interventional me...