US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Dec. 16 for "Method for focused transcranial electrical current stimulation" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,446, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Method for focused transcranial electrical current stimulation" was invented by Pulkit Grover (Pittsburgh) and Chaitanya Goswami (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for optimizing electrode placement that directly exploits the thresholding phenomenon of neurons. The method employs a loss function which only becomes non-zero when the electric field is above a user-specified threshold in the cancel region, thereby allowing for fields which can have significant non-zero current in the cancel region, but still provide mor...