US Patent Issued to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INCL on Aug. 11 for "Variable thermal conductance link for superconducting persistent current switch for fast magnet ramping" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,571, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INCL.

"Variable thermal conductance link for superconducting persistent current switch for fast magnet ramping" was invented by Geron Andre Bindseil (London, Canada), William Bradfield Handler (London, Canada) and Chad Tyler Harris (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for rapid ramping of an MRI magnet. The system includes a cooling source for the magnet, a persistent current switch and a variable thermal link connecting the persistent current switch and cooling source. The thermal link provides a low thermal conductance connection from the cooling sourc...