ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,274, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Brain-computer interface device, system and operating method" was invented by Remy Pottier (Grenoble, France), Hugo John Martin Vincent (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mbou Eyole (Soham, Great Britain) and Michael James Kanellos (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus to control operation of a brain-computer interface, comprising: capturing, at a sensor, a time series of brain activity in response to stimuli; passing data for the time series of brain activity to a history-based challenge generator; receiving, from the history-base...