US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on April 22 for "Determination of a subject specific hemodynamic response function" (Dutch, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,079, issued on April 22, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determination of a subject specific hemodynamic response function" was invented by Rudolf Mathias Johannes Nicolaas Lamerichs (Liempde, Netherlands), Timmy Robertus Maria Leufkens (Upplands Vasby, Sweden) and Joanne Henriette Desiree Monique Westerink (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300) where execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a computational system (104) to: receive (200) a time series of a R2-star map (122) for a brain volume (500); receive (202) a stim...