ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,172, issued on March 11, was assigned to FLOW NEUROSCIENCE AB (Malmo, Sweden).

"Positioning of electrodes for transcranial brain stimulation" was invented by Daniel Mansson (Simrishamn, Sweden) and Erik Rehn (Enebyberg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of guiding positioning of a headset for transcranial brain stimulation on a head of a user of the headset is disclosed The method includes: capturing, using a camera, one or more head images depicting the head; detecting, in the one or more head images, features of the head; creating, using the detected features of the head, a model of the head; computing, using the mode...