ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,215, issued on May 12, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Compressed sensing using different k-space sampling patterns" was invented by Wolfgang Rehwald (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Jianing Pang (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method comprises acquisition of a plurality of k-space sets, each of the plurality of k-space sets comprising a different incoherent variable-density under-sampled combination of k-space data points, performance of iterative reconstruction on the plurality of k-space sets to generate a plurality of images, where each of the plurality of images is associated wit...