ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,484, issued on June 10, was assigned to CORSMED AB (Stockholm).

"Method directed to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging simulation" was invented by Christos Xanthis (Athens, Greece) and Jorge Fernandez Villena (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention describes method directed to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging simulation, said method comprising-partitioning a pulse sequence in parts that have RF excitation and parts that do not have RF excitation; -for each of the parts that do not have the RF active, called gradient parts, performing compression of the gradient parts and then representing signals driving th...