ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,780, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Recording of magnetic resonance data in order to prevent cropping effects" was invented by David Grodzki (Erlangen, Germany) and Uvo Holscher (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for recording of magnetic resonance data to prevent cropping effects. A loss factor indicates an expected reduction of an image reconstructed on the basis of measurement data recorded using the loaded measurement protocol and determines filter parameters for a frequency filter for filtering frequencies of echo signals, received when re...