ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,495, issued on May 26, was assigned to KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Leuven, Belgium).

"Stimulation artefact modification method" was invented by Tom Francart (Blanden, Belgium) and Ben Somers (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for modifying a stimulation artefact in a measured electrical response of a subject to a stimulus. The method comprises: i) providing a first and a second signal. The first signal is a signal used as stimulus or a time-dependent signal derived from the stimulus and the second signal is a signal obtained as the measured electrical response to the stimulus;...