ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,285, issued on May 20, was assigned to Brain F.I.T. Imaging LLC (Unadilla, N.Y.).

"Methods and magnetic imaging devices to inventory human brain cortical function" was invented by John P. Ford (Unadilla, N.Y.) and Gustavo P. Sudre (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for determining cognitive impairment, an example of which includes accessing a set of epochs of magnetoencephalography (MEG) data of responses of a brain of a test patient to a plurality of auditory stimulus events; processing the set of epochs to identify parameter values one or more of which is based on information from the individual epo...