ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,437, issued on June 16, was assigned to UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE NORTH AMERICA INC. (Houston).

"Systems and methods for magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Yongquan Ye (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods and systems for MRI. The method may include obtaining MRI data of a target subject. The MRI data may be collected by applying an MRI pulse sequence on the target subject. The MRI pulse sequence may include a monomial RF pulse for exciting first substance in the target subject and suppressing second substance in the target subject. The method may further include reconstructing a mag...