ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,721, issued on March 31, was assigned to PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE Corp. (New York).

"Data compression for neural systems" was invented by Craig Mermel (Los Gatos, Calif.), Benjamin Rapoport (New York), Daniel Trietsch (New York), Mark Murphy (Chicago), Elton Ho (Mountain View, Calif.), Kostandinos Hatzianestis (Mountain View, Calif.) and Manuel Monge (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for compressing neural signal data using spatiotemporal data compression techniques. The system includes an implantable neural that receives electrophysiologic signal data from the electrode array, maps the electrophysiologic signal dat...