US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Protecting confidential information in a neural-computer interface system" (Canadian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,918, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protecting confidential information in a neural-computer interface system" was invented by Sara E Berger (Beaverton, Ore.), Marc P. Yvon (Antony, France) and Neil Delima (Scarborough, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product detect and react to neural signals. The method includes monitoring the neural signals, which are collected from a user by a neural-computer interface (NCI) device. The method further includes detecting, based on the monitoring, an inhibitory signal in the neural signals and de...