ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,655, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Champaign Imaging LLC (Shoreview, Minn.).

"Robust and computationally efficient missing point and phase estimation for FID sequences" was invented by Curtis A. Corum (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a machine readable storage medium storing instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The processor executes the instructions to receive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of a patient obtained via a free induction decay (FID) sequence, each FID of the FID sequence indicating missing or corrupted points at the beginning of the FID. The processor exe...