US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on March 31 for "Neuronal activity mapping using phase-based susceptibility-enhanced functional magnetic resonance imaging" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,318, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Neuronal activity mapping using phase-based susceptibility-enhanced functional magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Norbert G. Campeau (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew A. Bernstein (Rochester, Minn.), Clifton R. Haider (Rochester, Minn.), John Huston III (Rochester, Minn.), Nolan K. Meyer (Rochester, Minn.) and Joshua D. Trzasko (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functional magnetic resonance imaging ("fMRI") processing that makes use of both the magnitude and phase information contained in magnetic resona...