US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for measuring and altering brain activity related to flexible behavior" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,834, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Systems and methods for measuring and altering brain activity related to flexible behavior" was invented by Alik Widge (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling flexible behavior by stimulating a plurality of brain regions of a subject that includes receiving signals from a source region of the subject's brain, determining at least one signal indicative of out-of-range behavioral inflexibility from the source region in a predetermined frequency band delivering at least one stimulation pulse to at least one target ...