US Patent Issued to VIEWRAY SYSTEMS on March 31 for "Resistive electromagnet systems and methods" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,028, issued on March 31, was assigned to VIEWRAY SYSTEMS INC. (Denver).

"Resistive electromagnet systems and methods" was invented by James F. Dempsey (Atherton, Calif.), Massimo Dal Forno (San Carlos, Calif.), Shmaryu M. Shvartsman (Highland Heights, Ohio) and David L. Rayner (Reading, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system having a resistive, solenoidal electromagnet for whole-body MRI may include ferromagnetic material within an envelope of the electromagnet. The system can be configured to have a field strength of at least 0.05 Tesla and its main electromagnetic field can be genera...