ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,212, issued on May 12, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Wauwatosa, Wis.).

"Systems and methods of artifact reduction in magnetic resonance images" was invented by Xinzeng Wang (Houston), Sagar Mandava (Atlanta) and Xucheng Zhu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of reducing artifacts in multi-channel magnetic resonance (MR) images is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of sets of MR images acquired by a radio-frequency (RF) coil assembly having a plurality of channels. Each set of MR images includes a plurality of slices of MR images acquired by one of the plu...