US Patent Issued to Quality Electrodynamics on July 28 for "Half driving mode for degenerate birdcage coils and ladder coils" (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,356, issued on July 28, was assigned to Quality Electrodynamics LLC (Mayfield Village, Ohio).

"Half driving mode for degenerate birdcage coils and ladder coils" was invented by Xiaoyu Yang (Indiana, Pa.), Steven Tokar (Lyndhurst, Ohio), Tsinghua Zheng (Chesterland, Ohio) and Labros Peptropoulos (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system can include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) radio frequency (RF) coil, which is or otherwise includes a degenerate birdcage coil (DBC) or a ladder coil. The MRI RF coil includes a row of meshes for operation in a half driving transmit mode. The mesh...