US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, Ramot at Tel Aviv University on June 16 for "Memory enhancement by prefrontal deep brain stimulation synchronized to medial temporal lobe during sleep" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,013, issued on June 16, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and Ramot at Tel Aviv University Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Memory enhancement by prefrontal deep brain stimulation synchronized to medial temporal lobe during sleep" was invented by Itzhak Fried (Los Angeles), Yuval Nir (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Maya Geva-Sagiv (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closed-loop neuromodulatory system comprises one or more processors and memory. The system is configured to record signals from a first region of a brain of a human subject during sleep via a first electrode. The system is configu...