US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Nov. 3 for "Determination of BO inhomogenity in magnetic resonance imaging" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,485, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determination of BO inhomogenity in magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Daniel Duffy Borup (Best, Netherlands), Elwin De Weerdt (Tilburg, Netherlands) and Nicola Pezzotti (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) comprising a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions (120) and a convolutional neural network (122) configured for outputting a predetermined number of deblurred magnetic resonance images (126) that are slices of a deblurred magnetic resonance imaging data...