ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,003, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Magnetic resonance imaging method and apparatus based on two-dimensional fast spin echo" was invented by Yu Yu Wang (Shenzhen, China), De He Weng (Shenzhen, China), Kun Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Le Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a magnetic resonance imaging method, a first adjustment parameter is determined for presetting an initial contrast of a magnetic resonance image; a second adjustment parameter is determined for obtaining an optimized contrast of the magnetic resonance image and a specified data acquisition time of ...