ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,502, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Kilohertz transcranial magnetic perturbation with temporal interference" was invented by Daniel J. Sheltraw (Albany, Calif.), Benjamin A. Inglis (Lafayette, Calif.), Richard Irwin Ivry (El Cerrito, Calif.) and Ludovica Labruna (Kensington, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic stimulation system has at least two magnetic coils, each coil to generate an induced electric field of a magnitude having a desired effect on a brain, at least two frequency controllers, wherein each coil is electrically connected to a corresponding ...