US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Oct. 20 for "Simulated computer tomographic imaging" (Texas, Ohio, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,922, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Simulated computer tomographic imaging" was invented by Brian David Johnson (Dallas), Ivan Dimitrov (Coppell, Texas), Sandeep Kumar Ganji (Andover, Mass.) and John Paul Penatzer (Madison, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 500). The execution of the machine executable instructions (120) causes a computational system (104) to: receive (200) multi-echo gradient echo k-space data (122) comprising multiple in-phase groups (124) of k-space data acquired at echo times that are multiples of an interval when...