ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,168, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Multiwave Technologies AG (Plan les Ouates, Switzerland).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus provided with a magnetic assembly" was invented by Gianfranco Andia Vera (Marseilles cedex, France), Chloe Cabon (Marseilles cedex, France), Fouad Fezari (Marseilles cedex, France), Djamel Berrahou (Marseilles cedex, France), Marc Dubois (Marseilles cedex, France) and Tryfon Antonakakis (Marseilles cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus comprising: at least a first module comprising a trolley provided with a plate on one face of which rests a magnetic assembly intended to...