ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,716, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZHEJIANG LAB (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and system for simulating magnetic resonance echo-planar imaging artifact" was invented by Yu Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Zhichao Wang (Hangzhou, China), Chaoliang Sun (Hangzhou, China), Huan Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Haotian Qian (Hangzhou, China), Junyang Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Tianzi Jiang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for simulating magnetic resonance echo-planar imaging artifacts. Firstly, for K-space artifacts, K-space data are restored through normal magnetic resonance images, and the K-space data are modifie...