ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,509, issued on June 17, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Hangzhou, China).

"High-resolution magnetic resonance fingerprinting method and device based on radio frequency encoding" was invented by Huafeng Liu (Hangzhou, China), Dakun Hu (Hangzhou, China) and Huihui Ye (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a high-resolution magnetic resonance fingerprinting method based on radio frequency encoding, a device and storage medium, where radio frequency encoding is introduced into MRF, n time evolution signals can be collected by designing and respectively scanning a set of n radio frequency pulse signa...