US Patent Issued to University of Virginia Patent Foundation, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services on Dec. 2 for "System and method for variable-flip-angle 3D spiral-in-out TSE/space using echo-reordering and concomitant gradient compensation" (Virginia, Maryland, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,306, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Virginia Patent Foundation (Charlottesville, Va.) and The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (Washington).

"System and method for variable-flip-angle 3D spiral-in-out TSE/space using echo-reordering and concomitant gradient compensation" was invented by Zhixing Wang (Charlottesville, Va.), Rajiv Ramasawmy (Bethesda, Md.), Ahsan Javed (Vienna, Va.), John P. Mugler III (Charlottesville, Va.), Craig H. Meyer (Charlottesville, Va.) and Adrienne E. Campbell (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acquiring 3D MRI data usi...