ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,176, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS Corp. (Otawara, Japan).

"Magnetic resonance simulation apparatus, magnetic resonance simulation method, and computer-readable nonvolatile storage medium storing magnetic resonance simulation program" was invented by Hidenori Takeshima (Taito, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MR simulation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an input interface, central processing circuitry, and numerical processing circuitry. The input interface inputs a subsequence, being to be a subject of a simulation of a MR phenomenon, of a MR pulse sequence; and a plurality of isochromat...