ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,511, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to PRECISION NEUROSCIENCE Corp. (New York).

"Wireless implant system emergency shutdown" was invented by Konstadinos Hatzianestis (New York), Brian Otis (New York), Benjamin I. Rapoport (New York), Leonard Nevulis (New York) and Manuel Monge (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and methods for protecting the health of a user and the user's physiological data from unauthorized access by a third party during the operation of a neural implant is described. Based on a detected change in the internal state of the neural implant, or the detection of unauthorized access, an emergency system ...