ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,995, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Method for generating multi-ray spin-excitation sequences and application thereof to magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Vincent Gras (Gif sur Yvette, France), Franck Mauconduit (Gif sur Yvette, France) and Nicolas Boulant (Gif sur Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a global and regular parameterization for a family of spin-excitation pulse sequences in magnetic resonance imaging, with each pulse sequence of the family being a multi-spoke type sequence suitable for selectively ex...