ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,098, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Hyperfine Operations Inc. (Guilford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for performing magnetic resonance imaging with reduced operator interaction" was invented by Laura Sacolick (Guilford, Conn.), Rafael O'Halloran (Guilford, Conn.), Hadrien A. Dyvorne (New York), Khan Mohammad Siddiqui (Hinsdale, Ill.), Michal Sofka (Princeton, N.J.), Prantik Kundu (Branford, Conn.) and Tianrui Luo (New Haven, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for imaging a subject. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system may use at least one RF coil to generate an initial MR data set for an initial im...