ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,715, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and control program for magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Kenta Sakuragi (Tokyo), Shinji Takahashi (Tokyo), Kentaroh Sunaga (Tokyo), Chikako Moriwake (Tokyo) and Hisako Nagao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically performing a serial examination flow including, for example, positioning, imaging, and post processing enables reducing a burden placed on the user by a manual operation and improving examination efficiency. A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a computation unit that performs acti...