ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,568, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).

"Low-loss switching for circuits, low-loss switching for nuclear magnetic resonance radio frequency coils, methods of use, methods of making, systems, and devices" was invented by Edith Touchet-Valle (College Station, Texas), Seelay Tasmim (Allston, Mass.), Mary P. McDougall (College Station, Texas) and Taylor Ware (College Station, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present provides for a stimuli-responsive switches, circuits including a stimuli-responsive switch, systems include the circuit, method of switching frequencies in a n...