US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 27 for "Software and methods for controlling neural responses in deep brain regions" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,113, issued on May 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Software and methods for controlling neural responses in deep brain regions" was invented by James Dicarlo (Cambridge, Mass.), Pouya Bashivan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Kohitij Kar (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for non-invasively controlling targeted neural activity of a subject are provided herein. The techniques include applying a stimulus input to the subject, the stimulus input being formed by a deep artificial neural network (ANN) model and being configured to elicit targeted neural activity within a brain ...