US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on Feb. 24 for "Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain mapping and neuromodulation guidance and monitoring based thereon" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,540, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Functional magnetic resonance imaging brain mapping and neuromodulation guidance and monitoring based thereon" was invented by Robert Jeremiah Matthias Hermosillo (Minneapolis), Damien A. Fair (Minneapolis), Eric Feczko (Minneapolis), Lucille Anne Moore (Minneapolis) and Oscar Miranda-Dominguez (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functional networks are mapped for individuals and group populations based on magnetic resonance imaging, and the resulting functional mapping data (e.g., probabilistic maps of functional networks and/or in...