US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on July 1 for "Propeller echo planar time-resolved imaging with dynamic encoding" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,786, issued on July 1, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Propeller echo planar time-resolved imaging with dynamic encoding" was invented by Merlin John Casper Fair (Boston) and Kawin Setsompop (Charlestown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic resonance imaging ("MRI") using a PROPELLER echo-planar time-resolved imaging with dynamic encoding ("PEPTIDE") scheme is described. The PEPTIDE scheme combines a PROPELLER-style trajectory with an echo-planar time-resolved imaging ("EPTI") acquisition framework, along with dynamic-updating of sensitivity-encoding information."

The patent was filed on March 26, 2020...