US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, The United States Government, as represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs on June 23 for "Method and material to acquire magnetic resonance imaging data" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,413, issued on June 23, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and The United States Government, as represented by The Department of Veterans Affairs (Washington).

"Method and material to acquire magnetic resonance imaging data" was invented by Benjamin M. Yeh (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are MR images of a subject gastrointestinal tract structure in which the lumen of the structure is usefully darkened on both T1-weighted and T2-weighted images when the structure is imaged following administration to the subject of an enteric contrast agent formulation with part...