US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on June 2 for "Implantable sensor for use with magnetic resonance imaging" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,938, issued on June 2, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Implantable sensor for use with magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Aviad Hai (Madison, Wis.) and Suyash Bhatt (Monona, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microscale resonator tuned to an MRI Larmor frequency during MRI imaging may be implanted in tissue to monitor ion concentration using the MRI imaging system detecting changes in the resonant frequency of the microscale resonator caused by coupling to tissue ions. The application of a radiofrequency electrical field to the microscale resonator may permit ablation of local tissue....