ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,882, issued on July 21, was assigned to GE Precision Healthcare LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Noninvasive tissue displacement control and monitoring for neuromodulation" was invented by Jeffrey Michael Ashe (Gloversville, N.Y.), Christopher Michael Puleo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Victoria Eugenia Cotero (Troy, N.Y.), Ying Fan (Schenectady, N.Y.), Kirk Dennis Wallace (Schenectady, N.Y.) and John Frederick Graf (Ballston Lake, 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 that include applying energy (e.g., ultrasound energy) into an internal tissue to cause tissu...