ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,941, issued on June 2, was assigned to AJOU UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for distinguishing high-fat voxel and generating fat fraction map by means of magnitude-based multi-echo magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Kyu Sung Kwack (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and device for distinguishing a high-fat voxel and generating a fat fraction map by means of magnitude-based multi-echo magnetic resonance imaging, the method including obtaining, with a magnetic resonance scanner, three or more opposed-phas...