US Patent Issued to NORDICNEUROLAB AS on June 2 for "Audio system for MRI" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,708, issued on June 2, was assigned to NORDICNEUROLAB AS (Bergen, Norway).

"Audio system for MRI" was invented by Olav Birkeland (Radal, Norway) and Nikolai Kalvenes (Bergen, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes an audio system, and its components and/or units, configured for use during operation of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) device. Furthermore, a set of headphones (4) is configured for use in the MRI audio system and for use by a patient (8) to be subject to an MRI examination, wherein the headphones (4) comprise an array of MEMS speaker elements (22) placed in parallel and arranged within a ...