ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,292, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"Systems and methods of on-the-fly generation of 3D dynamic images using a pre-learned spatial subspace" was invented by Anthony Christodoulou (Los Angeles), Zhaoyang Fan (Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.), Debiao Li (South Pasadina, Calif.) and Pei Han (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing real-time magnetic resonance (MR) imaging on a subject is disclosed. A prep pulse sequence is applied to the subject to obtain a high-quality special subspace, and a direct linear mapping from k-space training data to subspace coordinates. ...