US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on Aug. 25 for "Data acquisition and measurement of characteristic functionals in biology and medicine" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,374, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Data acquisition and measurement of characteristic functionals in biology and medicine" was invented by Luca Caucci (Tucson, Ariz.) and Harrison H. Barrett (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many biologic processes taking place inside a living organism are unpredictable in time and space, and cannot be known exactly. These mechanisms and interactions among them are better modeled as physiological random processes, the statistics of which are fully described by joint characteristic functionals. The prese...