ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,729, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Multi-beam neuromodulation techniques" was invented by John Frederick Graf (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Christopher Michael Puleo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Jeffrey Michael Ashe (Gloversville, N.Y.), Victoria Eugenia Cotero (Troy, N.Y.) and David Andrew Shoudy (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for neuromodulation of a tissue that include applying energy (e.g., ultrasound energy) into the tissue at multiple regions of interest, concurrently or consecutively. The neuromodula...