ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,332, issued on April 14, was assigned to Applied Cognition Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Non-invasive assessment of glymphatic flow and neurodegeneration from a wearable device" was invented by Paul Dagum (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Gregory T. A. Kovacs (Palo Alto, Calif.), Laurent B. Giovangrandi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Carl J. Weber (Portola Valley, Calif.), Joerg C. Student (San Francisco), Nathan Whipple (San Francisco) and Jonathan I. Kaplan (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system includes accessing neurophysiological and neurovascular data recorded during sleep. A function mapping...