US Patent Issued to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL on Nov. 3 for "System and method for detecting and tracking MR incompatible devices within a MR environment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,474, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC..

"System and method for detecting and tracking MR incompatible devices within a MR environment" was invented by Chad Tyler Harris (Toronto), Alex Gyles Panther (Toronto), Cameron Anthony Piron (Toronto), Gal Sela (Toronto) and Jeff Alan Stainsby (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for detecting an MR incompatible object in an MR environment is provided. One or more sensors of a detection system continuously scan for MR-incompatible objects. When an object is detected in the vicinity of the MRI, a warning system in communication with the detection sys...