ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,025, issued on July 14, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis).

"Systems and methods for monitoring functional neuroplasticity" was invented by Nico Dosenbach (St. Louis) and Dillan Newbold (St. Louis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for monitoring neuroplasticity within at least one region of interest of a brain of a subject are disclosed. The method includes transforming at least one time sequence of signals indicative of neural activity into a summary parameter indicative of plasticity pulses. The method further includes evaluating the summary parameter with respect to one or more threshold values to o...