US Patent Issued to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Aug. 25 for "Magnetic tolerant imaging" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,309, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, Mass.).

"Magnetic tolerant imaging" was invented by Haichong Zhang (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Ryo Murakami (Worcester, Mass.), Gregory S. Fischer (Needham, Mass.), Yang Wang (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Ryosuke Tsumura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic tolerant, multi-mode imaging device includes an elongated probe adapted for insertion into an imaging region of a first imaging modality, and an imaging sensor in rotational communication with the elongated probe, where the imaging sensor is responsive to a second imaging modality. A contro...