ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,976, issued on April 22, was assigned to NEUROLUTIONS INC (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

"Brain-controlled body movement assistance devices and methods" was invented by Eric C. Leuthardt (St. Louis), Lonnie J. Love (Knoxville, Tenn.), Rob Coker (Foristell, Mo.) and Daniel W. Moran (Ballwin, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for brain-controlled body movement assistance devices. In one aspect, a device includes a brain-controlled body movement assistance device with a brain-computer interface (BCI) component adapted to be mounted to a us...