ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,616, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance imaging method, system, and computer program product utilizing B1 amplitude-based corrections" was invented by Andrew James Wheaton (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for modifying a series of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan sequences for use in a single MRI examination. In one embodiment, a method and system intersperse a set of B1 amplitude measurement sequences within a received series of MRI scan sequences such that an RF parameter value of at least one scan sequence of the received s...