US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 30 for "Brain-computer interface for user's visual focus detection" (American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,298, issued on June 30, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Brain-computer interface for user's visual focus detection" was invented by Sanjay E. Sarma (Belmont, Mass.) and Alex Armengol Urpi (Sant Sadurni D'anoia, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various aspects, a new concept of Steady-State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is described where brain-computer communication occurs by capturing SSVEP induced by consciously imperceptible visual stimuli integrated into, for example, a virtual scene. These consciously imperceptible visual stimuli...