ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,600, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY (Harbin, China).

"Multi-core integrated magnetic resonance imaging system with distributed, parallel, and scalable architecture" was invented by Xilin Sun (Harbin, China), Chuanxing Wu (Harbin, China), Kai Wang (Harbin, China), Yongyue Wu (Harbin, China), Haoxuan Wu (Harbin, China), Pengcheng Cheng (Harbin, China), Lixin Cheng (Harbin, China), Yongyi Wu (Harbin, China), Lili Yang (Harbin, China) and Lina Wu (Harbin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel scalable architecture and highly integrated Simulcast X-nuclei MRI system includes a multi-nuclear scanni...