ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,614, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Erlangen, Germany).

"Simultaneous multi-slice protocol and deep-learning magnetic resonance imaging reconstruction" was invented by Esther Raithel (Dormitz, Germany), Boris Mailhe (Plainsboro, N.J.), Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.), Jan Fritz (Baltimore), Florian Knoll (New York), Marcel Dominik Nickel (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Gregor Korzdorfer (Erlangen, Germany), Inge Brinkmann (New York) and Mariappan S. Nadar (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques of reconstructing multiple Magnetic Resonance Imaging, MRI, images for multiple slices...