US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK on May 12 for "Magnetic resonance method and system for characterizing circular Couette flow of fluids" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,100, issued on May 12, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK (Fredericton, Canada).

"Magnetic resonance method and system for characterizing circular Couette flow of fluids" was invented by William Selby (Fredericton, Canada) and Igor Mastikhin (Fredericton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system of characterizing flow behavior of a fluid sample including providing a magnet with a constant gradient where at least a portion of the sample defining a sensitive region is in the constant gradient, inducing circular Couette flow in the fluid in at least the sensitive region, generating an NMR pulse sequence comp...