US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on May 20 for "Magnetic resonance imaging using 3D spoiled gradient-recalled sequence" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,280, issued on May 20, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Magnetic resonance imaging using 3D spoiled gradient-recalled sequence" was invented by Zheng Zhong (Houston), Christopher Michael Sandino (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Shreyas S. Vasanawala (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) performs a spoiled gradient-recalled (SPGR) MRI scan with an MRI scanner to produce MRI data; and reconstructs an MRI image from the MRI data; wherein performing the SPGR MRI scan comprises playing an interleaved-randomized spoiler (IRS)...