G01R 33/34007
Manufacture of rf coils
Official title: {Manufacture of RF coils, e.g. using printed circuit board technology; additional hardware for providing mechanical support to the RF coil assembly or to part thereof, e.g. a support for moving the coil assembly relative to the remainder of the MR system}
G01R33/34007 (Manufacture of rf coils) appears on 739 US grants and 805 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01R- Granted patents
- 739
- Published applications
- 805
- Assignees
- 271
- Inventors
- 1,413
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2004 | 15 | 12 |
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| 2008 | 13 | 34 |
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| 2024 | 31 | 43 |
| 2025 | 28 | 54 |
| 2026 | 21 | 16 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Birdcage resonator for high resolution NMR applications6 Oct 2026US 12,754,264 B2Quad Systems Corporation
- 3D printed MRI coil, phantom and shimming element22 Sep 2026US 12,742,839 B2Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Flexible magnetic resonance (MR) coil array using electrical zipper contacts21 Jul 2026US 12,687,596 B2Koninklijke Philips N. V.
- Shifting phase in a resonator device for magnetic resonance16 Jun 2026US 12,656,429 B2Quantum Valley Investment Fund LP
- Radio frequency receiving coil assembly with handle9 Jun 2026US 12,650,480 B2GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Blanket-type coil unit and coil system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299059 A1FUJIFILM Corporation
- System and method for modular installation of loops of a radio frequency coil10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266934 A1GE Precision Healthcare LLC
- Dual resonator structure for nuclear magnetic resonance (nmr) spectroscopy3 Sep 2026US 2026/0259287 A1Phoenix NMR
- Radio frequency coil methods and apparatus27 Aug 2026US 2026/0248457 A1Hyperfine Operations, Inc.
- Torso local coil array27 Aug 2026US 2026/0251737 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
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- Method of internal magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopic analysis and associated apparatus268US 5,699,801 AThe Johns Hopkins University · 1997
- Miniature magnetic resonance catheter coils and related methods234US 6,263,229 B1The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine · 2001
- Intracavity probe and interface device for MRI imaging and spectroscopy163US 5,476,095 AMedrad, Inc. · 1995