US Patent Issued to Virginia Commonwealth University on March 3 for "System and method for multi-coil steerable and selectively focussed transcranial magnetic stimulation" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,727, issued on March 3, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.).

"System and method for multi-coil steerable and selectively focussed transcranial magnetic stimulation" was invented by Ivan C. Carmona Tortolero (Richmond, Va.), Ravi L. Hadimani (Richmond, Va.), Mark S. Baron (Richmond, Va.) and Deepak Kumbhare (Richmond, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes positioning above the transcranial region, an arrangement of solenoids, and selecting a target zone from among a plurality of zones. A zone-specific set of Q solenoids is identified from the arrangement of solenoids, based on the t...