ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,484, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Flip angle determination for multi-tissue magnetic resonance scanning" was invented by Qiong Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for determining a flip angle for multi-tissue magnetic resonance scanning. The method including: determining multiple types of tissue of interest for MRI this time; acquiring a relationship between combined SSI MR signal strength of all the tissues of interest and flip angle of an SSI sequence; acquiring a maximum value of the combined SSI MR signal strength of all the tissues of inter...