ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,944, issued on June 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Semi-supervised ML-synthesis for time-resolved imaging" was invented by Kawin Setsompop (Stanford, Calif.), Congyu Liao (Union City, Calif.), Cagan Alkan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mahmut Yurt (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for magnetic resonance imaging acquires time-resolved k-space data by a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, and generates contrast-weighted images by a multi-task generator G from the time-resolved k-space data. The multi-task generator G comprises a deep learning n...