ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,518, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Zeit Medical Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Stroke monitor" was invented by Orestis Vardoulis (San Francisco), Urs H. Naber (Redwood City, Calif.) and Stylianos Kyriacou (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable real-time stroke detector apparatus can be configured to be coupled to one or more EEG skin electrodes located on a subject for performing real-time stroke detection. This can include signal processor circuitry. Power spectral density (PSD) circuitry receive an acquired EEG signal acquired via a channel coupled to a skin electrode of the one or more EEG skin electrode...