US Patent Issued to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY on May 19 for "Methods and systems of improving and monitoring addiction using cue reactivity" (West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,524, issued on May 19, was assigned to WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BOARD OF GOVERNORS ON OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY (Morgantown, W.va.).

"Methods and systems of improving and monitoring addiction using cue reactivity" was invented by Ali Rezai (Morgantown, W.va.), Victor Finomore (Morgantown, W.va.) and James Mahoney (Morgantown, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of improving addiction in a patient in need thereof are provided. Methods include exposing the patient to drug related cues and measuring the patient's craving levels or physiological levels during or after cue exposure to determine the patient's status or condition....