US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 15 for "MRI apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,602, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"MRI apparatus" was invented by Masashi Ookawa (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an MRI apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to continuously generate time-point data in increments of a predetermined time length; generate a series of gradient magnetic fields based on a predetermined pulse sequence; acquire an external trigger in association with trigger-time-point data corresponding to an acquisition time point of the external trigger; estimate a value of an eddy magnetic field at a second time point by using the gradient m...