ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,833, issued on June 24, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Neural biomarkers of Parkinson's disease" was invented by Wael Farouk Asaad (Westwood, Mass.), Minkyu Ahn (Pohang Gyeongbuk, South Korea), Shane Lee (Providence, R.I.), Peter Maxwell Lauro (Providence, R.I.), Umer Akbar (North Attleboro, Mass.), David D. Liu (Providence, R.I.), James Young Ho Yu (Los Angeles) and Daniel Esteban Amaya (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes engaging Parkinson's Disease (PD) subjects in a continuous motor performance task that elicits natural motor variability, quantifying natural motor variability ...