US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Children's Medical Center on June 3 for "Emboli detection methods to identify mechanisms of brain injury in susceptible adults and children" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,497, issued on June 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Children's Medical Center Corp. (Boston).

"Emboli detection methods to identify mechanisms of brain injury in susceptible adults and children" was invented by Thomas Heldt (Cambridge, Mass.), Syed Muhammad Imaduddin (Cambridge, Mass.), Kerri Larovere (Andover, Mass.) and Barry Kussman (Waban, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for detecting embolic information for a patient. The techniques may include obtaining data identifying an ultrasound signal associated with the patient, identifying a set of candidate embolic regions ...