US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on May 27 for "Systems and methods for preventing, mitigating, and/or treating dementia" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,194, issued on May 27, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for preventing, mitigating, and/or treating dementia" was invented by Li-Huei Tsai (Cambridge, Mass.), Anthony James Martorell (Cambridge, Mass.), Ho-Jun Suk (Cambridge, Mass.) and Ed Boyden (Chestnut Hill, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods for a treating dementia or Alzheimer's disease in a subject in need thereof. In one example, combined auditory and visual stimuli having a frequency of about 20 Hz to about 60 Hz, and more specifically about 40 Hz, are non-invasively delivered to th...