ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,044, issued on March 25, was assigned to GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, N.Y.).

"System and method for neuroactivity detection in infants" was invented by Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Guangliang Zhao (Latham, N.Y.), Tzu-Jen Kao (Watervliet, N.Y.), Aghogho Obi (Troy, N.Y.) and Nancy Cecelia Stoffel (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neuroactivity monitoring system includes a camera configured to acquire image data of a patient positioned on the patient support and a monitoring device in communication with the camera. The monitoring device uses the acquired image data of the camera to ide...