US Patent Issued to Washington University on Feb. 17 for "Supervised classifier for optimizing target for neuromodulation, implant localization, and ablation" (Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,232, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Supervised classifier for optimizing target for neuromodulation, implant localization, and ablation" was invented by Eric Leuthardt (St. Louis), Carl Hacker (St. Louis), Shan Siddiqi (St. Louis), Tim Laumann (St. Louis) and Andy Daniel (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a seed region for use in a seed-based cortical functional mapping method includes providing at least one RSN map of at least one subject, each of the at least one RSN maps comprising a plurality of functional voxels within a brain of each of the at least one subje...