US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, New York University on May 20 for "Methods and systems for precise quantification of human sensory cortical areas" (Arizona, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,246, issued on May 20, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and New York University (New York).

"Methods and systems for precise quantification of human sensory cortical areas" was invented by Yanshuai Tu (Mesa, Ariz.), Yalin Wang (Tempe, Ariz.) and Zhong-Lin Lu (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensory mapping method for a human brain is disclosed. The method includes the steps of flattening the cortical surface of the human brain, projecting functional imaging data onto the flattened surface, smoothing the functional imaging data, generating a sensory map, regis...