ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,107, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to BrainSpec Inc. (Boston).

"Systems and methods of analyzing and interfacing with combined imaging and spectroscopy data for the brain" was invented by Alex Zimmerman (Newport, R.I.) and Alexander Lin (Waban, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In part, the disclosure relates to an analysis system in communication with one or more sources of brain region or brain tissue-specific spectroscopy data; and computer-executable logic, encoded in memory of the analysis system, for interpreting brain region or brain tissue-specific spectroscopy data, where the computer-executable logic is configured for ...