ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,881, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Equilization for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals" was invented by Rodrigo Calderon Rico (Gainesville, Fla.), Alton Keel (Gainesville, Fla.), Tracy Allyn Wynn (Gainesville, Fla.), Arne Reykowski (Newberry, Fla.) and Scott Bradley King (Gainsville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance (MR) system includes an MR receive channel (20) including: an MR coil element (22) configured to receive MR signals in an MR frequency band; an electronic signal processing chain (24) configured to process the MR signals received by the...