US Patent Issued to Oxford University Innovation on July 7 for "Brain imaging" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,817, issued on July 7, was assigned to Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Brain imaging" was invented by Steven Chance (Oxford, Great Britain), Mark Jenkinson (Oxford, Great Britain) and Mario Torso (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to medical imaging and, more particularly, it relates to methods and systems for performing processing of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of the brain which may be useful in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders. More specifically, the invention includes methods for processing cortical diffusion data from a region of a sub...