ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,865, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (India).

"System and a method thereof for automatic detection of epileptogenic focus in pharmacoresistant epilepsy" was invented by Shameer Aslam (Uttarakhand, India), Ashok Pillai (Kerala, India), Siby Gopinath (Kerala, India), Natesan Damodaran (Tamil Nadu, India), Ramiah Rajeshkannan (Kerala, India) and Manjit Sarma (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention introduces a system (S) and method for automatic detection of epileptogenic focus (EF) in pharmacoresistant epilepsy using an asymmetry index in FDG-PET images. The system (S) compris...