US Patent Issued to Vanderbilt University, The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on June 9 for "Systems for neuroimager alignment and coupling evaluation" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,696, issued on June 9, was assigned to Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.) and The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems for neuroimager alignment and coupling evaluation" was invented by Audrey K. Bowden (Nashville, Tenn.), Seyed M Hadi Hosseini (San Carlo, Calif.) and Anupam Kumar (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a neuroimager alignment and coupling evaluation (NACE) system, includes a neuroimaging device; a fiducial affixed to the neuroimaging device; an imaging device; and an augmented reality (AR) module coupled to the imaging device and conf...