ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,893, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Brain function measurement device" was invented by Shumpei Yamaguchi (Kyoto, Japan) and Akihiro Ishikawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This brain function measurement device (100) includes a brain blood flow information acquisition unit (1) that acquires brain blood flow information (d1) of a subject (P), a brain function information acquisition unit (30) that acquires brain function correlation information (d3) indicating a relative change in a correlation between respective portions of the brain acquired on the basis of the brain blood flow infor...