US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 17 for "Methods of targeting neural circuit for personalized neuromodulation for impulsivity-related or uncontrollable behaviors" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,130, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Methods of targeting neural circuit for personalized neuromodulation for impulsivity-related or uncontrollable behaviors" was invented by Daniel Alves Neiva Barbosa (San Jose, Calif.), Casey Halpern (Philadelphia) and Jennifer Mcnab (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of targeting a neural circuit of a subject having an impulsivity-related or uncontrollable behavior, the method comprising (a) generating a circuit specific brain connectivity profile using a directionality ...