ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,004, issued on July 29, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Accelerated medical image reconstruction with improved aliasing artifact reduction" was invented by Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.), Gregor Korzdorfer (Erlangen, Germany), Marcel Dominik Nickel (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Esther Raithel (Dormitz, Germany), Simon Arberet (Princeton, N.J.) and Mariappan S. Nadar (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For reconstruction in medical imaging, such as reconstruction in MR imaging, scanning is accelerated by under-sampling. In iterative reconstruction, the input to the regularizer is altered pr...