ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,068, issued on July 8, was assigned to KYUNGPOOK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION (Daegu, South Korea).

"Magnetic resonance imaging device and method for precisely measuring cerebral oxygen metabolism" was invented by Hyunyeol Lee (Daegu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic resonance imaging device for measuring cerebral oxygen metabolism includes a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions such that the one or more processors is configured to acquire UTE (ultrashort echo-time)-AUSFIDE (alternating unbalanced SSFP-FID &...