ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,670, issued on June 10, was assigned to Ceribell Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for electrode placement and tracking" was invented by Josef Parvizi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xingjuan Chao (Palo Alto, Calif.), Bradley G. Bachelder (Menlo Park, Calif.), Raymond Woo (Los Altos, Calif.), Mathew A. Herron (Hayward, Calif.), Vahid Saadat (Atherton, Calif.), Alexander M. Grant (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jianchun Yi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode carrier system includes one or more electrode assemblies having an electrode body. One or more tubular members extend from the electrode body and define a...