US Patent Issued to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on Sept. 1 for "Systems, methods, and media for decoding observed spike counts for spiking cells" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,485, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Systems, methods, and media for decoding observed spike counts for spiking cells" was invented by Sean Perkins (New York), Mark Churchland (New York) and Karen Schroeder (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms including: receiving a first set of observed spike counts (FSoOSCs) for the spiking cells; determining a set of probabilities (SoPs) by: retrieving the SoPs from stored information (SI); or calculating the SopS based on the SI, wherein the SI regards possible biological states (BSs) of a subject, wherein...