ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,740, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for digitographic measurement of Parkinson's disease" was invented by Helen Bronte-Stewart (Pacifica, Calif.), Megan H. Trager (Saratoga, Calif.) and Simon Revlock (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for digitographic measurement of Parkinson's disease in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a digitographic measurement device, including a housing, a plurality of keys attached to the housing, a plurality of se...