ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,277, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Mild cognitive impairment detection and prediction system" was invented by Tongtong Li (Okemos, Mich.), Jinxian Deng (East Lansing, Mich.), Boxin Sun (East Lansing, Mich.), Bruno Giordani (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mingyan Liu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Voyko Kavcic (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for assessing brain impairment includes generating electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from a plurality of electrodes, removing artifacts from the EEG signals to generate artifact reduced signals, generating...