Patents by Inventor Robert Sethfield Smith

Robert Sethfield Smith 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).

  • Unified shimming for magnetic resonance superconducting magnets
    Patent number: 6181137
    Abstract: A method for shimming a magnetic resonance imaging magnet requiring higher magnetic field homogneity on a small imaging volume and by magnetic field measurements on a larger volume providing small measurement error and practical field strength measurements and utilizing the spherical harmonic coefficients of the measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Timothy John Havens, Xianrui Huang, Robert Sethfield Smith, Steven Ho-Chong Wong, Michele Ogle, Bu-Xin Xu, Minfeng Xu