US Patent Issued to The Governors of the University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services on April 14 for "Metamaterial slab for MRI" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,800, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Governors of the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) and Alberta Health Services (Edmonton, Canada).

"Metamaterial slab for MRI" was invented by Adam Maunder (Edmonton, Canada), Nicola de Zanche (Edmonton, Canada) and Ashwin Iyer (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metamaterial (MTM) slab for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system passively interacts with a field generated by a transmit device to improve homogeneity of the field, specific absorption rate, and/or strength of the field. The MTM slab may also be connected to RF receive circuitry at one or more ports to...