ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,782, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and control method and control program thereof" was invented by Takashi Nishihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prescan is automated to the greatest extent practicable, allowing acquisition of a favorable image irrespective of skills of an operator, as well as minimizing the time related to the prescan. For a plurality of image types in imaging tasks, a comprehensive FOV including all FOVs respectively of a plurality of image types is set, and for the comprehensive FOV, it is determined whether or not an item adjusted by the...