ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,623, issued on July 14, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"System and method to select among trajectories for therapeutic stimulation of a target volume region within the brain" was invented by Parag G. Patil (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Akshay Rao (Troy, Mich.), Asra Askari (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Charles W Lu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for selecting a trajectory within the brain for placement of a stimulation probe for deep brain stimulation (DBS) treatment of an individual afflicted with an illness, condition, or disorder. Electrophysiological data attained wi...