ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,624, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Recommender system using cognitive pre-testing to select optimal MRI scanning tasks" was invented by Marco Matters (Valkenswaard, Netherlands), Evelijne Machteld Hart de Ruijter-Bekker (Waalre, Netherlands), Maria Estrella Mena Benito (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Raymond Van Ee (Geldrop, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to improve MRI workflow, a recommender system is provided that comprises an input unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The input unit is configured to receive data comprising information about a plurali...