US Patent Issued to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL on June 16 for "System and method for operation and control of electromagnets" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,431, issued on June 16, was assigned to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC..

"System and method for operation and control of electromagnets" was invented by Chad Tyler Harris (Toronto) and Andrew Thomas Curtis (Ajax, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for compensation of radiofrequency (RF) spatial encoding misalignment errors due to gradient non-linearity in magnetic resonance imaging is described. The true magnetic field produced by the gradient coils in space are taken into account in order to encode the appropriate frequency band offset of the RF pulse corresponding to the desired spatial encoding position and thickness...