ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,801, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC (Waukesha, Wis.).

"Deep learning-based automated parameter optimization and therapy system for deep brain stimulation" was invented by Afis Ajala (Schenectady, N.Y.), Jianwei Qiu (Rexford, N.Y.), John Karigiannis (Laval, Canada), Radhika Madhavan (Latham, N.Y.), Desmond Teck Beng Yeo (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Thomas Kwok-Fah Foo (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Andres M. Lozano (Toronto), Alexandre Boutet (Toronto) and Jurgen Germann (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing DBS parameters for a subject includes automatically performing actions via a processor. ...