US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on July 21 for "Systems and methods for entropy-based treatment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,666, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for entropy-based treatment" was invented by Andrew Geoly (Stanford, Calif.) and Nolan R. Williams (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for entropy-based treatment in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for treating a neurological condition, including obtaining a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan of a patient's brain, identifying a plurality of regions of interest (ROIs) in the fMRI...