ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,992, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Data processing apparatus and MRI apparatus" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Taito, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: acquire data that are based on a magnetic resonance signal acquired from a specific region of an object, the data being acquired for detecting a chemical shift of substance; and perform relation calculation between a designated chemical shift arbitrarily designated in a predetermined range of the chemical shift and displacement amount of a position of the ...