ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,471, issued on July 21, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"System for positioning and maintaining the position of a reference sensor around a magnetoencephalography helmet" was invented by Etienne Labyt (Grenoble Cedex, France), William Fourcault (Grenoble Cedex, France), Ilea Paquin-Honore (Lille, France) and Guilhem Laffont (Lille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for positioning and maintaining a position of a reference sensor around a magnetoencephalography helmet. The system includes an arch comprising at least one fixing branch for fixing the arch to an MEG hel...