| Content Description | Concerns objections to United States Patent Application Serial No. 08/556941 for 'Acoustically Screened Gradient Coils'. Includes copy of United States Patent Application No. 5345177 for 'Magnetic Resonance Imaging Apparatus Having Vibration Damping Means on Gradient Coil' (Inventors: Taichi Sato, Yoshiharu Mohri, Kihachiro Tanaka, Takao Honmei, Masayuki Otsuka and Masashi Wada), copy of United States Patent Application No. 5572131 for 'Shielded Gradient Coil for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging' (Inventor: Richard Rzedzian), copy of United States Patent Application No. 5554929 for 'Crescent Gradient Coils' (Inventors: F. David Doty and James K. Wilcher), and copy of French Patent Application No. 2704322 for 'Système de bobines de gradient transverse pour appareil de résonance magnétique nucléaire' (Inventors: Alain Lacaze and Thierry Lecomte). |