ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,438, issued on May 12, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Self-supervised joint image reconstruction and coil sensitivity calibration in parallel MRI without ground truth" was invented by Ulugbek Kamilov (St. Louis), Hongyu An (St. Louis), Yuyang Hu (St. Louis), Jiaming Liu (St. Louis), Cihat Eldeniz (St. Louis), Weijie Gan (St. Louis) and Yasheng Chen (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for image reconstruction for parallel MR imaging are disclosed that receive a k-space single-coil measurement dataset that includes at least two k-space single-coil measurement sets, transforming the k-space ...