US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Dec. 2 for "MRI radio-frequency heating amelioration for metallic braided catheters" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,297, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"MRI radio-frequency heating amelioration for metallic braided catheters" was invented by Ehud J. Schmidt (Towson, Md.), Ronald D. Watkins (Stanford, Calif.) and Henry R. Halperin (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a catheter solution that would maintain MRI-compatible metallic braiding or metallic covering on a surface of the catheter, and that also prevents cables disposed in an interior lumen of the catheter from effectively propagating currents induced from external signal transmis...