ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,759, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"System and method for improving magnetic resonance scanning workflow" was invented by Florian Wiesinger (Freising, Germany), Dattesh Dayanand Shanbhag (Bengaluru, India), Kavitha Manickam (Pewaukee, Wis.), Harsh Kumar Agarwal (Jaipur, India), Dawei Gui (Sussex, Wis.) and Chitresh Bhushan (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a scan of a subject utilizing a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes triggering a prescan by an MRI scanner of the MRI system upon the subject being setup on a table of the MRI sca...