US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for quantification of the mapping of the sensory areas of the brain" (Arizona, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,967, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and OHIO STATE INNOVATION FOUNDATION (Columbus, Ohio).

"Apparatus and method for quantification of the mapping of the sensory areas of the brain" was invented by Yalin Wang (Tempe, Ariz.), Duyan Ta (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Zhong-Lin Lu (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and systems provide a tool to quantify sensory maps of the brain. Cortical surfaces are conformally mapped to a topological disk where local geometry structures are well preserved. Retinotopy data are smoothed on the disk domain to ge...