ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,018, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"Methods of detecting and mapping spinal cord epidurally-evoked potentials" was invented by Susan J. Harkema (Louisville, Ky.), Ayman El-Baz (Louisville, Ky.), Claudia Angeli (Louisville, Ky.) and Samineh Mesbah (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to a novel approach to automatically detect the occurrence of evoked potentials, quantify the attributes of the signal and visualize the effect across a high number of spinal cord epidural stimulation parameters. This new method...