ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,432, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).
"Gradient coil unit with cooling duct" was invented by Peter Dietz (Furth, Germany) and Stefan Stocker (Grossenseebach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gradient coil unit may include a gradient coil surrounding a cylinder axis and configured to generate a magnetic field gradient in a first spatial direction. The gradient coil may include a hollow cylindrical primary layer having two primary conductor structural units and a cooling duct. One primary conductor structural unit respectively of the two primary conductor structural units is forme...