US Patent Issued to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research on Aug. 25 for "Bidirectional spike-timing-dependent brain network gain control" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,862, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (Rochester, Minn.).

"Bidirectional spike-timing-dependent brain network gain control" was invented by Anders J. Asp (Rochester, Minn.) and Jose L. Lujan (Byron, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example method for increasing synaptic gain in a region of a brain of a subject, a first electromagnetic pulse is applied to a first neural element of a first neuron of the subject using a first electrode. The first neural element includes a first synapse coupled to a second neuron of the subject. Subsequent to applying the first electromagneti...