US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University on Nov. 18 for "Method and system for determining brain-state dependent functional areas of unitary pooled activity and associated dynamic networks with functional magnetic resonance imaging" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,797, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Method and system for determining brain-state dependent functional areas of unitary pooled activity and associated dynamic networks with functional magnetic resonance imaging" was invented by Jie Huang (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for identifying brain-state dependent functional areas of unitary pooled activity (FAUPAs) using a statistical model that does not require a priori knowledge of the activity-induced ideal response signal time course is provided. A system for identifying a functional networ...