ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,716, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shanghai United Imaging Intelligence Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"MRI reconstruction based on contrastive learning" was invented by Zhang Chen (Brookline, Mass.), Shanhui Sun (Lexington, Mass.), Xiao Chen (Lexington, Mass.), Yikang Liu (Cambridge, Mass.) and Terrence Chen (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with MRI image reconstruction. According to embodiments of the disclosure, an apparatus configured to perform the MRI image reconstruction task may be configured to obtain an under-sampled MRI image and generate ...