ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,056, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Head coil system and methods" was invented by Gilbert Thevathasan (Brampton, Canada), William Wai-Leung Lau (Toronto) and Alex Gyles Panther (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Head coil systems and methods involving a plurality of portions, each portion of the plurality of portions having a magnetically conductive receiver coil and a frame configured to accommodate the magnetically conductive receiver coil, and each portion of the plurality of portions configured to couple and decouple with another portion of the plurality of portions; at leas...