Patents by Inventor Mark Spring

Mark Spring has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Medical imaging apparatus including a gantry and a couch having built-in power connectors
    Patent number: 12016704
    Abstract: A patient couch for use in a medical imaging system that includes a gantry, a power supply unit and a driving unit for positioning the patient couch with respect to the gantry. The patient couch includes at least a first connector for supplying a wireless coil (e.g., a radio frequency (RF) coil for an MRI imaging apparatus) with power. The patient couch is detachably connected to the gantry. The power supply is configured to supply the first connector with power and an optional clock synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Spring, Yoshinori Hamamura, Kazuya Okamoto, Sojiyuuro Kato, Kazuyuki Soejima
  • MEDICAL IMAGING LIGHT PATIENT COUCH
    Publication number: 20230301597
    Abstract: A patient couch for use in a medical imaging system that includes a gantry, a power supply unit and a driving unit for positioning the patient couch with respect to the gantry. The patient couch includes at least a first connector for supplying a wireless coil (e.g., a radio frequency (RF) coil for an MRI imaging apparatus) with power. The patient couch is detachably connected to the gantry. The power supply is configured to supply the first connector with power and an optional clock synchronization signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark SPRING, Yoshinori HAMAMURA, Kazuya OKAMOTO, Sojiyuuro KATO, Kazuyuki SOEJIMA
  • MR RF coil with non-conductive waveguides
    Patent number: 11255934
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance RF receive coil with non-conductive waveguides for data transfer between the RF coil antennas and the channel aggregator is described. The non-conductive waveguide for each channel includes a plastic waveguide transferring data between a millimeter wave transmitter and a millimeter wave receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mark Spring, Yoshinori Hamamura, Ernie Zepeda
  • MR RF COIL WITH NON-CONDUCTIVE WAVEGUIDES
    Publication number: 20210333340
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance RF receive coil with non-conductive waveguides for data transfer between the RF coil antennas and the channel aggregator is described. The non-conductive waveguide for each channel includes a plastic waveguide transferring data between a millimeter wave transmitter and a millimeter wave receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Mark SPRING, Yoshinori Hamamura, Ernie Zepeda
  • Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and method with improved data transfer
    Patent number: 11112470
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes data acquisition circuitry configured to generate magnetic resonance data; a digital encoder connected to receive the magnetic resonance data and configured to digitally encode the magnetic resonance data using an encoding scheme having a spectral null approximately at the Larmor frequency; and an electric data transmission line connected to transmit the digitally encoded magnetic resonance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Hamamura, Mark Spring, Ernie Zepeda