ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,493, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for quantitative susceptibility mapping reconstruction in low-field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system" was invented by Jayavardhana Rama Gubbi Lakshminarasimha (Bangalore, India), Viswanath Pamulakanty Sudarshan (Bangalore, India), Arpan Pal (Kolkata, India) and Pavan Kumar Reddy Kancham (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "State of the art systems being used for QSM reconstruction have explored prior information from both magnitude and phase data. However, the underlying assumption is that the susceptibility m...