ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,017, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Emotiv Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods for modeling neurological development and diagnosing a neurological impairment of a patient" was invented by Tan Le (San Francisco) and Geoffrey Ross Mackellar (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a method for modeling neurological development includes: aggregating electroencephalography (EEG) data that comprise multiple EEG signals of each user in a set of users, EEG signals of each user recorded on multiple distinct dates, the set of users comprising a plurality of users of various known neurological statuses; identifying a synchronizat...