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Widened and shaped MRI surface coil having increased signal-to-noise ratio

EP 0364061 B1 · Applicant: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

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  • Filed January 10, 1989 and granted March 8, 1995. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 10, 2009.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by July 10, 2014.
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FiledJanuary 10, 1989
PublishedApril 18, 1990
GrantedMarch 8, 1995
Term endedJanuary 10, 2009
Application numberEP 89300167
Classification (CPC)G01R33/341

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