ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,836, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University (China) and Beihang University (China).

"Method and system for extracting multi-dimensional disconnection network region of symptom mapping" was invented by Zixiao Li (Beijing), Tao Liu (Beijing), Hao Liu (Beijing), Lingling Ding (Beijing) and Yongjun Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for extracting a multi-dimensional disconnection network region of symptom mapping: registering a lesion image to a brain standard space; obtaining diffusion magnetic resonance images and resting-state functional magnetic resonanc...