US Patent Issued to CORNELL UNIVERSITY, THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH on Dec. 30 for "Methods for selective activation of central thalamus fibers in a subject and systems therefor" (New York, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,930, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CORNELL UNIVERSITY (Ithaca, N.Y.) and THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (Salt Lake City).

"Methods for selective activation of central thalamus fibers in a subject and systems therefor" was invented by Nicholas Schiff (New York), Jonathan Baker (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Keith Purpura (New York), Andrew Janson (Salt Lake City) and Christopher Butson (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selective activation of central thalamus fibers in a subject is disclosed. The method involves providing one or more electrodes each with one or more contacts. The one or more electrodes are positioned in the...