ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,373, issued on May 13, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Propeller magnetic resonance acquisition and blade-specific reconstruction" was invented by Marcel Dominik Nickel (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for determining a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image using multiple measurement data sets that form a propeller pattern. Partial MRI images are reconstructed for each measurement data set. The partial MRI images are then combined."

The patent was filed on Dec. 15, 2022, under Application No. 18/081,772.

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