ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,830, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to WYSS CENTER FOR BIO AND NEURO ENGINEERING (Geneva).

"Craniode" was invented by Maxime Baud (Geneva), Georgios Kouvas (Geneva) and Aleksander Sobolewski (Geneva).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A craniode is positioned in an intra-osseous fashion, namely partly or wholly within the bone of the skull, without penetrating the interior of the skull, while also being positioned below the scalp. A craniode can be used to sense electrical signals from a brain, to electrically stimulate the brain, to emit light signals to the brain, to detect light signals from the brain, to perform functional near infra...