US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on June 16 for "Artificial intelligence distortion correction for magnetic resonance echo planar imaging" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,439, issued on June 16, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Artificial intelligence distortion correction for magnetic resonance echo planar imaging" was invented by Shujaat Khan (Plainsboro, N.J.), Mahmoud Mostapha (Princeton, N.J.), Mariappan S. Nadar (Plainsboro, N.J.), Thorsten Feiweier (Poxdorf, Germany), Bryan Clifford (Belmont, Mass.) and Mengwei Ren (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For distortion correction in magnetic resonance (MR) echo planar imaging (EPI), a combination of supervised and unsupervised training provides deep learning with generalized applicability across different...