ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,966, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to neuro42 Inc. (San Francisco).

"Fast T2-weighted and diffusion-weighted chirped-CPMG sequences" was invented by Xiaowei Zou (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods for T2-weighted and/or diffusion weighted chirped-CPMG sequences are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method can include projecting a magnetic field along a longitudinal axis and toward an object of interest and transmitting a radio frequency pulse sequence to a radio frequency coil assembly configured to selectively excite magnetization in the object of interest. The radio frequency pulse sequence ...