ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,645, issued on June 30, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable mediums for biomarker quantification using free-breathing stack-of-radial imaging" was invented by Xiaodong Zhong (Oak Park, Calif.), Marcel Dominik Nickel (Herzogenaurach, Germany), Stephan Kannengiesser (Wuppertal, Germany) and Vibhas S. Deshpande (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating at least one image using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes generating, for each contrast of a plurality of contrasts, an image by forming a multi-dimensional data ma...